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Definition of Headboards
1. headboard [n] - See also: headboard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Headboards
Literary usage of Headboards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mining Practices by Engineering and Mining Journal (1919)
"headboards, 5-ft. long and made up of 3-in. planks three deep, were put in between
them and the walls, with the wedges again ..."
2. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1892)
"headboards shall be not less than 2 by 10 or 3 by 8 inches, of good sound lumber,
... These headboards can be placed on either side of the stanchions. ..."
3. Regulations for the Government of National Cemeteries by United States Army. Quartermaster's Dept (1911)
"Temporary headboards, 2 feet long by 10 inches wide, extending 18 inches ...
Under no circumstances will the erection of temporary headboards be deferred. ..."
4. Army Regulations by Confederate States of America War Dept, United States War Dept (1902)
"headboards will be placed at the graves, each bearing the number of the grave
and the name of the person buried therein. A register of the burial ground ..."
5. The Furniture of Our Forefathers by Esther Singleton, Russell Sturgis (1913)
"The addition of stuffed headboards gives an elegant and high finish to the ...
The headboards of these beds are framed and stuffed, and covered to suit the ..."
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