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running head
noun
- a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc.
running head
noun
- printing a heading printed at the top of every page or every other page of a book
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Word History and Origins
Origin of running head1
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Example Sentences
There were two issues of this book, the variations of which occur in the running head-lines.
In books and pamphlets the page number is usually at the outside end of the running-head line.
The gage should include the length of a full page, over all, from the top of the running head down to the foot slug.
The page number or folio is in the end of the running head line, the odd numbers at the right and the even numbers at the left.
The freight crew had ignored or forgotten it, and were now past Point of Rocks running head-on against the passenger train.
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