headwork
Americannoun
noun
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mental work
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the ornamentation of the keystone of an arch
Other Word Forms
- headworker noun
- headworking noun
Etymology
Origin of headwork
Example Sentences
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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
He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
All horseplay and no headwork, the gossips sneered, will surely make John a dull picture.
From Time Magazine Archive
Colonel Meade, loyal and gallant, a good soldier and planter, said that Hamilton did the headwork of Washington's staff and he the riding.
From George Washington, Volume II by Lodge, Henry Cabot
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