headstock en · NOUN
Etymology
From head + stock.
Meanings
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A headframe.
It was a beautiful day. At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.
1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6:
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
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A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.
1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Train Illustrated, page 728:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| headstocks | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
tailstock (lathe part)
Synonyms
buffer beam (rail) · peghead · pegbox
Translations (16)
fi lapa (part of a lute-type string instrument) · zh 琴头 (part of a lute-type string instrument) · cs hlava (part of a lute-type string instrument) · zh 琴頭 /琴头 (part of a lute-type string instrument) · fi karapylkkä (part of a machine that holds the rotating section particularly of a lathe, drill etc.) · pl główka (part of a lute-type string instrument) · cs vřeteník (part of a machine that holds the rotating section particularly of a lathe, drill etc.) · pl łożysko (part of a machine that holds the rotating section particularly of a lathe, drill etc.) · mi pane (part of a lute-type string instrument) · pt mão (part of a lute-type string instrument) · mi puritāhuri (part of a machine that holds the rotating section particularly of a lathe, drill etc.) · pt cabeça (part of a lute-type string instrument) · de Kopfplatte (part of a lute-type string instrument) · ru голо́вка (part of a lute-type string instrument) · fr mécanique (part of a lute-type string instrument) · de Kopf (part of a lute-type string instrument)