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
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.
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He is fond of good living, used to hard headwork; serene, humorous, fair to a fault though a faithful partisan.
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Lest mere headwork make them top-heavy he now writes more roundedly of the manly stature he believes all men desire.
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You can beat any boy of your size at that sort of headwork that ever I saw.
From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison
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