Dictionary

headsheet en · NOUN

Etymology

From head + sheet.

Meanings

1. A poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
   • Not unlike the agency book, the headsheet is sent around to various clients and photographers as a quick-glance reference. 2000, Erin Pinckney, The Truth on Modeling:
   • I asked for the names of a couple of the advertising agencies to which the company representatives send the headsheet, to verify that they do what they claimed. 1998, Susan M. Halter, Modeling How One Parent Started Her Children, →ISBN, page 6:
   • Too often, it's nothing more than labelling and a moving headsheet of actors. 2004, Systems Design Limited, Moview, →ISBN:
2. The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
   • And even when the headsheet gives an afterthought to these things, the results can be dismal. 1974, Laura Longley Babb, Of the Press, by the Press, for the Press (and Others, Too):, →ISBN, page 66:
   • He was infuriated, and wrote forthwith a challenge to Daniel scrawled on a newspaper headsheet. 1934, Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, page 614:
3. Synonym of coversheet.
   • COPY the agency identification number from the blue sheet into the space provided on the headsheet of this booklet. 1979, Larry A. Giddings, Diana Sooy, National Symposium on Job-Task Analysis in Criminal Justice, page 424:
   • A headsheet may be provided, to which these worksheets are attached, and on which descriptions, element times, and the job standard are shown. 1945, Wayne Leslie McNaughton, Industrial Economy and Labor Control, page 191:
4. Synonym of foresheet.
   • Hilloa, the periagua !” it cried. “ Haul over your headsheet, and jam the tiller down into the lap of that comfortable-looking old gentleman. 1873, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch Or the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale, page 37:
   • There has been great controversy as to the position in the barge in which the last reel was deposited. The plaintiff says that it was only some 2 or 3 ft. from the headsheet, and that it was in the centre line between aft and forward of the barge. 1960, J. A Edwards, Henry Patten Henley, Lloyd's List Law Reports - Volume 2, page 658:
   • Why don't you haul your headsheet to windward and Starboard your tiller. 1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old - Issues 1051-1100, page 33:
5. (historical) A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
   • To said Duglas Sheffeild second best bed at Ealinge, chaiers. stooles, creepers, fyer pann, tongues and other furniture in the chamber; also little basin and silver candlestick which I usually have in my chamber etc.; also a silver tonne and porringer, Cambrick sheetes, headsheet, pillowbeers, and things belonging to child bed; 1902 -, The Genealogical Magazine - Volumes 12-14, page 12:
   • In 1494 the two large pillows had been covered by a headsheet which seems to have fallen out of fashion in the sixteenth century as there are very few amongst Henry VIII's goods (12686). 2012, Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London:
   • If he is inclined to take a nap after dinner, ' his stomak to digest,' kerchief and comb, pillow and headsheet are to be got ready, and he is not to be allowed to sleep too long. 1871, Belgravia - Volume 14, page 128:
6. Synonym of headcloth.
   • The door, however, did not open, and within the minute he whirled to a staccato rap on the pane beyond the door grill, confronting a grizzled face beneath a headsheet crowned with a frayed fillet. 1992, George Core, Revelation and Other Fiction from the Sewanee Review:
   • Traditional Arab headgear was available, very good in the hot sun although the heavy black circle of stiff cord that was supposed to keep the white headsheet in place tended to fall off with the slightest movement, ... 2007, Peter Charles Howard Pritchard, Tales from the Thébaïde: Reflections of a Turtleman, page 217:
   • The ceremony of divorce is simple. The man tears the headsheet of the woman in half and hands it over to her. 1996, K. Mann, Tribal Women: On the Threshold of Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 91:
   • Her headsheet is wrapped half across her face, only her large, kohl-blackened eyes showing. 1979, Jane Sherman, The drama of Denishawn dance, page 37:
7. A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
   • The bed is constructed of 0.250-inch-thick high-hard steel, and the headsheet and sides are of 7-gage steel. 1999, The Engineer - Volume 29, Issue 3, page 52:
   • From headsheet to tailgate— from top roll to longitudinals— every Galion Allsteel dump body is built to give long service life. 1955, Roads and Streets - Volume 98, page 127:
   • The number and size of tubes in a given area of headsheet and their relative positions have much to do with the steaming qualities of boilers. 1884, Henry Coddington Meyer, Charles Frederick Wingate, The Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer:

Forms

Synonyms

coversheet · headcloth · foresheet