headwork
Americannoun
noun
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mental work
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the ornamentation of the keystone of an arch
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A 4-4-1-1 looks likely, with Van der Vaart stealthily finding space to score – which last season was often created by Peter Crouch's headwork.
From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2011
Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire.
From Time Magazine Archive
They know he has made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan.
From Time Magazine Archive
He doesn't seem to see the advantage of headwork.
From Hidden Treasure by Simpson, John Thomas
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