headstock
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English
Etymology
Noun
headstock (plural headstocks)
- (mining) A headframe.
- 1913, DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 6:
- It was a beautiful day. At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.
- A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
- A beam that supports a bell.
- A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
- The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
- (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.
- 1960 December, “The first hundred 25 kV a.c. electric locomotives for B.R.”, in Train Illustrated, page 728:
- The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.
Synonyms
- (rail): buffer beam
- (lutherie): peghead, pegbox
Coordinate terms
- (lathe part): tailstock
Translations
part of a machine that holds the rotating section particularly of a lathe, drill etc.
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part of a lute-type string instrument
References
- “headstock”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.