Definition of Headring

1. a palm-leaf hair ornament [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Headring

headpins
headquarter
headquartered
headquartering
headquarters
headquarters staff
headrace
headraces
headrail
headrails
headrest
headrests
headrig
headright
headrigs
headring (current term)
headrings
headroom
headrooms
headrope
headropes
headrush
headrushes
headrushing
heads
heads-up
heads-up display
heads-up displays
heads-ups
heads I win, tails you lose

Literary usage of Headring

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

1. Zulu-English dictionary by John William Colenso (1884)
"... sew or make a headring, as the first on a man's head, or a new in place of an old one ... Sew for; make a headring for; decant for; kindle, as a, flame. ..."

2. Riding and Driving by Edward Lowell Anderson, Price Collier, T. Suffern Tailer (1905)
"The chains should be of a length which will admit of snapping both hooks into the pole headring. If too short, one end should be hooked in the pole ..."

3. American Horse Show Blue Book (1903)
"The chains should ¡be of a length which will admit of snapping both hooks into the pole headring. If too short, one end should be hooked in the pole ..."

4. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation: With Notes on by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"Wear, or have the headring put on for the first time, as a young-man (see ... Man who has already put on the headring. ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1892)
"... dances clothed in a bear-skin and wearing a large headring, heavy bracelets and anklets, all made of red and white cedar-bark. ..."

6. Annals of Ophthalmology (1904)
"The headring had two large black hooks. The fly is found in Russia, Germany, Austria and Italy, and lives chiefly around the livestock. ..."

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