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ˈhead-work
[f. head n.1 + work n.]
1. a. Mental work; brain-work.
1837Dickens Pickw. liv. 587 How the blazes you can stand the head-work you do, is a mystery to me. 1843Maury in Mrs. Corbin Life (1888) 46 Destroying myself with over-much head-work. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede iii. xxxiii, His headwork was so much more important to Burge than his skill in handicraft. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 49 The art..is not hand-work, but head-work.
b. The practice of carrying loads on the head.
1840R. H. Dana 2 Yrs. bef. Mast xiv, For we soon found that..‘head-work’ was the only system for California.
c. Skill in games and sports.
1851J. Pycroft Cricket Field ii. 22 There is a deal of head-work in bowling. 1898B. J. Angle in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 42 His quickness of foot and tricky head-work quickly demoralised the majority of his opponents. 1898K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team (ed. 3) iv. 84 The English bowling..aimed at steadiness, rather than head work and sting. 1958F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. 52 Headwork, craftiness in boxing.
2. Arch. ‘An ornament for the keystone of an arch’ (1864 in Webster citing Gwilt).
3. pl.
a. Apparatus for controlling the flow of water in a river or canal.
b. (See quot. 1905.)
1891Scribner's Mag. X. 468 The river flowing between firm banks, could be permanently controlled by head⁓works of masonry. 1903Sci. Amer. Suppl. 10 Jan. 22597/3 Headworks can be placed more easily along the banks of smaller streams, or dams built across their beds, raising and controlling the waters. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging 40 Headworks, a platform or raft, with wind⁓lass or capstan, which is attached to the front of a log raft or boom of logs, for warping, kedging, or winding it through lakes and still water, by hand or horse power. 1963Times 19 Apr. 14/6 Smoothly it flowed, the head⁓works of a carefully planned series of canals. 1971N. Smith Hist. Dams i. 10 The headworks of the irrigation canal.
Hence ˈhead-ˌworker, one who works with his head or brain.
1873B. Stewart Conserv. Force (U.S. ed.) viii. 224 The head-worker is not equally fitted to be a hand-worker. |