Definition of Headstocks

1. Noun. (plural of headstock) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Headstocks

1. headstock [n] - See also: headstock

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headstocks

headspins
headspring
headsprings
headstall
headstalls
headstamp
headstamps
headstand
headstands
headstart
headstarts
headstay
headstays
headstead
headstock
headstocks (current term)
headstone
headstones
headstream
headstreams
headstripe
headstrong
headstrongly
headstrongness
headteacher
headteachers
headtire
headtires
headtube
headtubes

Literary usage of Headstocks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lockwood's Dictionary of Terms Used in the Practice of Mechanical by Joseph Gregory Horner (1892)
"... and in the back centres of the headstocks of lathes. The bearing end of a thrust screw may be either flat, or conical in form, and is always hardened. ..."

2. Pattern Making: A Practical Treatise Embracing the Main Types of Engineering by Joseph Gregory Horner (1885)
"—headstocks. THERE are two ways of making lathe beds: one is to construct the pattern like the casting, leaving certain parts loose, and giving due taper ..."

3. Lathe Design for High- and Low-speed Steels: A Treatise on the Kinematical by John Thomas Nicolson, Dempster Smith (1908)
"... CHAPTER XXXVII LOOSE headstocks TFIE function of the loose headstock is twofold. In addition to providing a support to the end of the job it must be ..."

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