| 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. | |
| 3. | (Arch.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. | |
| 4. | A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. | |
| 5. | A fall or plunge head first, as while riding a bicycle, or a skateboard, or in bathing; - sometimes, implying the striking of the head on the ground; |
| Noun | 1. | header - a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text" |
| 2. | header - horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or windowSynonyms: lintel | |
| 3. | header - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall | |
| 4. | header - a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters | |
| 5. | header - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon | |
| 6. | header - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head | |
| 7. | header - a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" |
| 1. | header - The portion of a packet, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields. | ||
| 2. | header - The part of an electronic mail message or news article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things, the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent. |
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