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Headstock

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe) wordnet
  3. 3
    A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
  4. 4
    A beam that supports a bell.
  5. 5
    A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
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  1. 6
    The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
  2. 7
    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."

Etymology

From head + stock.

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