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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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
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
Few newspaper readers suspect how much headwork goes into headlines.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even plainsmen from Nola admired the headwork of the Viscianesi and came to lend a hand from time to time in supplying material for an orphanage for 200 children from three to seven.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is in dam-building that the beaver shows his greatest skill and his best headwork; for I confess to the belief that a beaver reasons.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Mills, Enos Abijah
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