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plural headstocks
(mining) A headframe. quotations examples
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.
1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6
A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle. examples
A beam that supports a bell. examples
A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck. examples
The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings. examples
(rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies. quotations examples
The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.
1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Train Illustrated, page 728