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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. One who, or that which, heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading.

2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.]

3. A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

4. In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

5. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only.

6. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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