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/ˈhɛdlʌɪn/, U.S. /ˈhɛdˌlaɪn/ I. A rope.
1. Nautical.† a. Any of various small ropes used to secure a sail to a yard. Obsolete. † b. A rope sewn along the upper edge of a flag. Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > ropes securing sail to yard
headline1294
rope-bend1294
roband1336
robbin1497
raeband1513
rope-yard1611
earing1626
leech-line1626
rope-band1769
jackstay1834
roving1837
1294–5 Naval Acct. in B. Sandahl Middle Eng. Sea Terms (1958) II. 44 Heuedlines, Ropbendes, et aliis minutis..Item in Cordulis que dicuntur..Heuedlynen et Ropbendes.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 15 Diuerse other small cordage, as head lines.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 22 Head lines, are the ropes that make all the sailes fast to the yard.
1762 Gen. Hist. Sieges & Battles VI. 170 Head-lines, the uppermost ropes of all sails next the yards, by which they are made fast to them.
1829 Mus. Foreign Lit. & Sci. Aug. 153/2 The sails brought snugly to the yards by headlines previously fitted.
1847 R. Kipping Elements Sailmaking 60 The ends of the head line are spliced into the earings.
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1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 169 Head-line, is the line sewed along the upper edge of flags to strengthen them.
1848 G. Biddlecombe Art of Rigging (new ed.) 17 Head-ropes are the ropes sewed along the upper edge of sails, &c., to strengthen them; when applied to flags, are termed Head-lines.
c. A rope or chain used to secure the bow of a vessel to the shore, another vessel, etc.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > for securing vessel > at bow
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bow-fast1822
headline1830
1830 Standard 17 June 3/4 The pilot..called out to the crew to let go their headline or warp.
1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer ii. 29 Get out that head-line!
1877 J. Habberton Jericho Road i. 9 The head-line was cast off as the pilot's bell rang.
1958 E. S. Land Winning War with Ships 105 I ‘went ashore with the headline’, contacted the Italian Admiral, and cooled off somewhat.
1969 W. Mitford Lovely she Goes! xv. 81 The headline broke the surface, and with it came a German sea-mine.
1987 D. J. House Seamanship Techniques II. ix. 232/2 Although an astern movement of main engines would cause the bow to move to port.., holding on to the head line would achieve the same objective.
2. A rope attached to the head of an animal. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > lead
stringa1300
banda1400
head rope1810
tending-string1821
lead-rope1846
leading-string1859
jerk line1865
guy rein1869
headline1889
1889 Cent. Dict. 2751/2 Head-line, a line or rope attached to the head of an animal, as a bullock.
1910 Sat. Evening Post 1 Jan. 14/1 Bobby traveled slowly..and once or twice he stumbled, jerking at his headline.
II. A line, and related senses.
3. Palmistry. Usually as two words. A line stretching obliquely across the centre of the palm and supposed to indicate mental or intellectual characteristics; = line of the head at line n.2 8b. Cf. heart line n. at heart n., int., and adv. Compounds 3a, lifeline n. 1.
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the world > life > the body > skin > mark on skin > line in palmistry > [noun]
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lifeline1571
rascette1571
discriminal1652
heart line1652
bracelet1883
fate-line1889
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > mark on the hand > other lines
line of the livera1440
sister1558
headline1571
liver line1571
discriminal1652
heart line1652
line of (the) sun1653
natural line1653
sun line1653
dragon's tail1678
fate-line1889
1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xxxviii. f. 168v Cerebri linea, representeth the head lyne.
1685 W. Salmon Polygraphice (ed. 5) v. xxxviii. 488 Of the Cephalica or head-line.
1724 Weekly Jrnl. 26 Dec. 3058/1 My Cephalica (which you are to know is my Head-Line) has, it seems, a Forky Figure in the midst of it.
1867 A. R. Craig Bk. of Hand xxiii. 189 If a line sets out from the head line, and rises straight to the mount of Jupiter, crosses it, and cuts the roots of the forefinger, it is excessive pride.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in Cent. Mag. Feb. 554/2 Wilson began to study Luigi's palm, tracing life lines, heart lines, head lines, and so on.
1926 Pop. Sci. June /2 This man's left hand showed an excellent head line.
2000 P. Agbabi Transformatrix 15 My two-tone hand with its translucent palm, life line, heart line, head line.
4. Chiefly North American. As two words. A boundary line taken as a reference line, esp. in describing an adjoining parcel of land. Now rare.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > a survey line > a base line
baseline?1556
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1656 in Documents & Rec. New-Hampsh. (1867) 1 221 From the said head lyne we measured for the length..6 miles & a halfe... We measured a second cross line for breadth beginning at Sqamscott house.
1661 S. Partridge Descr. Double Scale Proportion 93 Against 224, the length of the Bulwarks head-line, is 112, the length of the head-line in the Fort to be made.
1704 in A. S. Batchellor et al. Probate Rec. New Hampsh. (1907) I. 514 All my land..up as far as the southern hills, viz. as far as to butt against Andrews head line.
1773 Hist. Brit. Dominions N. Amer. II. 51 From Lake Erie, along the north head-line of Pennsylvania..to Delaware River.
1867 Proc. Surveyors' Assoc. West New Jersey 64 A tract of land in the present township of Cinnaminson, beginning on the northeast side of Pennsaukin Creek..; thence north, north-west by the head lines of the farms.
1903 in Ordinances City Philadelphia (1904) 155 Thence crossing the head of said Morris street 50 feet..to a point in the southerly head line thereof.
5. † c. Printing. A line drawn across the top of a page. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
a. Usually as two words. A (notional) line marking the top of the main body of lower-case letters in a line of text. Contrasted with baseline n. 4. rare before 19th cent.
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1676 J. Moxon Regulæ Trium Ordinum 6 The Head-line is the upper line that bounds the Short Letter.
1863 Illinois Teacher Mar. 72 Continue the left side of the loop with the left curve of the oval to the head line.
1870 L. S. Thompson et al. Hand-bk. Eclectic Syst. Penmanship 49 The head line is the horizontal line, real or imaginary, to which the shortest letters extend.
1939 Mem. Amer. Acad. Rome 16 11/2 In the minuscule f..the crossbar is above the base line and often on the head line.
1999 F. Newton Scriptorium & Libr. Monte Cassino, 1058–1105 (2001) 92/1 The e..always has the upper loop above the head line.
b. Typography. An area at the top of a page containing the running title, pagination, or similar information; the line of text positioned here. Now chiefly historical.
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1771 P. Luckombe Hist. & Art of Printing 449 The Head-line in the Proof lie in the same range with the Head-line on the Metal.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia II. vi. 133 Head-lines are generally set in small capitals of the same fount, or in Italics.
1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 231 When there is no running title, the folios are placed in the middle of the head-line.
1904 T. L. De Vinne Pract. Typography IV. vii. 261 When there is no running title, the paging figures may be put in the centre of the head-line.
1983 Humanistica Lovaniensia 32 380 The dimensions of a normal type-page..less headline and direction-line.
2011 M. Day in H. Smith & L. Wilson Ren. Paratexts ii. 45 The running titles, section and page headlines..disclose a growing awareness of the possibilities presented by the running-title space.
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1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. at Head Head-line, the line which is drawn across the top or head of a page.
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a. A heading or title at the top of a page or section of text; esp. a piece of text given in large letters which summarizes or draws attention to an article in a newspaper or similar publication.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline
headline1791
head1889
top line1906
1791 Trans. Soc. Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce 9 Errata p.xx For the head-line Agriculture, read Chemistry.
1803 Gentleman's Mag. Aug. 774 A French copy of the paper..closely printed on small hand-bills, with a head line in red letters, ‘Vive le Roi’.
1833 A. Clarke Holy Bible I. p. xvi In the heads or head-lines to each page, I have endeavoured to introduce..the chief subject of the columns underneath.
1890 C. W. Dilke Probl. Greater Brit. I. 78 The amazing headlines which are so conspicuous a feature in the leading journals of New York.
1936 Fortune Oct. 112/2 ‘President Puts All Postmasters Under Civil Service’, the headlines screamed.
1981 S. Hess Washington Reporters 98 Newspaper headlines favor the president.
2003 Church Times 16 May 9/1 ‘Catastrophe Threatens the 12 Million Children of Iraq’, blared the headline.
b. Broadcasting. A brief summary of an important news item, given at the beginning or end of a news bulletin, typically one of several such summaries; (hence) an important news story. Also in extended use.
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society > communication > broadcasting > a broadcast programme or item > [noun] > types of
news bulletin1857
news summary1875
police message1886
newsflash1904
headline1908
play-by-play1909
feature1913
spot ad1916
magazine1921
news1923
time signal1923
outside broadcast1924
radiocast1924
amateur hour1925
bulletin1925
serial1926
commentary1927
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school broadcast1927
feature programme1928
trailer1928
hour1930
schools broadcast1930
show1930
spot advertisement1930
spot announcement1930
sustaining1931
flash1934
newscast1934
commercial1935
clambake1937
remote1937
repeat1937
snap1937
soap opera1939
sportcast1939
spot commercial1939
daytimer1940
magazine programme1941
season1942
soap1943
soaper1946
parade1947
public service announcement1948
simulcasting1949
breakfast-time television1952
call-in1952
talkathon1952
game show1953
kidvid1955
roundup1958
telenovela1961
opt-out1962
miniseries1963
simulcast1964
soapie1964
party political1966
novela1968
phone-in1968
sudser1968
schools programme1971
talk-in1971
God slot1972
roadshow1973
trail1973
drama-doc1977
informercial1980
infotainment1980
infomercial1981
kideo1983
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1908 ‘O. Henry’ Gentle Grafter 39 A female voice starts up reading headlines of murders, accidents and other political casualties.
1934 B.B.C. Year-bk. 82 They [sc. Topical Talks] were given five minutes every evening in which to deal with the ‘head line’ of the day, and were tacked on like a tail to the news bulletins.
1960 T. H. White View from 40th Floor v. 72 I might as well hear it out. Just give me the headlines, not the detail.
1971 ‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Doctor Bird i. 6 I watched the news headlines on television.
1980 E. Mach Great Contemp. Piantists speak for Themselves I. 107 It's not unusual for me to hear the headlines on the ‘Today Show’ before turning in.
2011 CNN Internat. (Nexis) 8 Aug. This is CNN. And tonight, the main headline is that the U.S. markets are down very sharply.
Phrases
Originally U.S. slang. to hit the headlines: to be the subject of an (important) news story; to feature prominently in the news; to gain fame or notoriety in this way. Similarly also to make (the) headlines.
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society > communication > journalism > appearance in the press > appear in newspaper or journal [verb (intransitive)]
to be gazetted1678
to make (the) headlines1903
to hit the headlines1939
to make the front page(s)1939
to make the news(papers)1983
society > communication > information > news or tidings > [verb (intransitive)] > news media
to make (the) headlines1903
to hit the headlines1939
to make the front page(s)1939
to make the news(papers)1983
1903 Motive Power Aug. 92/1 They are the ones who make headlines for the daily papers, keep our police courts busy, fill our prisons, [etc.].
1917 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 22 Aug. 8/4 Billy Sunday by turning handsprings before the altar and spitting at the devil across the footlights makes the headlines, while thousands who follow Christ in humble service go un-noted.
1939 War Illustr. 21 Oct. 181 He [sc. Winston S. Churchill] ‘hit the headlines’ in 1899 with a dramatic escape from captivity in a Boer armoured train.
1960 Life 29 Aug. 71/1 A New York disc jockey recently hit the headlines with a marathon nonsleeping performance.
1990 Amsterdam (N.Y.) News 24 Mar. 19/3 She became so rich that her shopping sprees made headlines.
2007 C. MacFarlane Real Gorbals Story (2009) xviii. 147 Holyrood Secondary was hitting the headlines for its pupils' success stories.
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a. General attributive (in sense 6), as headline article, headline story, headline type, etc.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [adjective] > relating to headline
headline1881
1881 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 2 July 12/7 The headline editor had better be absent the next visit ‘Gath’ makes to the Enquirer office.
1894 H. C. Vedder Amer. Writers of To-day xiii. 216 I don't know that the headline type was any larger than usual.
1909 Daily Chron. 19 Aug. 3/1 His ingenuity is amazing,..and not merely amazing in the headline sense of that ill-used word.
1933 Amer. Speech Dec. 6/2 ‘Headline English’ has become almost a menace to standard English usage nowadays.
1965 Economist 2 Oct. 57/3 He still uses that unfortunate American headline-verb ‘to score’ (meaning ‘to attack’).
1997 N. Aaseng You are Juror 75 (caption) Johnson carries a newspaper with the headline banner, ‘Party Sentenced’.
2011 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 14 Nov. a7/4 Newspapers typically provide free access to headline stories and current events.
b. Objective, as headline hunter, headline writer, etc.; headline-grabbing, headline-making, etc., adjs.
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1887 Chambers's Jrnl. 18 June 396/2 Some of these headline writers are paid large salaries.
1915 M. Tracy & M. Boyd Painless Childbirth vii. 114 In the early months, lost sight of in the more spectacular headline-making criticisms, are on record the judgment..that Freiburg probably had a better method.
1939 Fortune Nov. 90/2 The aerial dogfight story..turned out to be the headline hunter's way of saying that British coastal batteries had mistakenly fired at their own planes.
1945 Billboard 29 Dec. 12/4 Headline-grabbing charges of patent suppression.
1996 Independent 6 Feb. 19/1 Today's headline stealer is..Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools.
c. attributive. Designating an event, etc., which is the (likely) subject of a headline; newsworthy, important, most notable.
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1906 Vanderbilt Univ. Q. July 201 Ed Hamilton's bunt and Manager Norvell's base-running were easily headline features.
1958 Times 11 Aug. 11/3 Mrs. Roebling..is usually to be seen..at film premières, at art shows, at headline parties.
1981 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 10 Dec. 24 Measures need to be taken not only against headline disasters such as explosions and roof collapse but against lesser known problems.
2005 D. Poole T. Richmond iii. 24 Richmond found a way to put himself alongside Rutherford..in the headline moment of the race.
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a. attributive (originally U.S.). With reference to top billing at a performance, venue, etc. Cf. headlining adj.Recorded earliest in headline act n. at Compounds 2b.
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1899 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 30 Jan. 8/1 The..high-class vaudevilles present an all star program of ten distinct and different members, each one a headline act.
1912 Washington Post 20 Oct. (Mag. section) 2/4 The headline attraction at Poli's this week will be an elaborate musical specialty offered by the five Lawyers.
1923 Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner 7 Feb. 4/8 Max Lindner's four-reel comedy..held the headline billing at Grauman's Los Angeles theatre.
1940 Life 30 Dec. 52/1 Ethel Merman is one of the many headline stars whom De Sylva has built up.
1971 N.Y. Amsterdam News 14 Aug. b7/6 Grammy award winner B. B. King will be the headline performer at Weequahic Park.
1994 D. Thompson Never fade Away vi. 102 Nirvana set out for a..tour which took in a series of increasingly prestigious festivals, including a headline slot at England's annual Reading show.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 28 Dec. (Features section) 57 Their biggest headline gig to date..and recent support slots with Feeder and Admiral Fallow.
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headline act n.
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1899Headline act [see Compounds 2a].
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 6 Apr. 9/1 Organisers..have secured Bob Dylan as the headline act this year.
headline position n.
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1901 Washington Post 9 July 7/5 The speciality of the three Fanchonette sisters would be given a headline position in a regular vaudeville performance.
2004 Evening Times (Glasgow) (Nexis) 3 July 5 Bowie's replacement for the headline position on the Saturday has been taken by retro pop outfit, The Darkness, who have been moved up from the No 2 position.
headline tour n.
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1932 Tipton (Indiana) Daily Tribune 2 May 4/4 Then he returned to America for a headline tour of vaudeville houses.
2012 Sun (Nexis) 19 Oct. 9 We're all excited..as it's our first headline tour. We've done support tours but you're only on for 20 minutes.
C3. attributive. Economics.
a. Designating a figure for unemployment based on the unadjusted total number of people out of work; designating a rate based on this figure, as a percentage of the population; of or relating to such a rate or figure.Often used as the official figure in national statistics, headline unemployment typically does not account for factors such as seasonal variation, people who are not actively seeking work, etc.
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1975 Financial Times 3 Nov. 23/1 We have the Heath-Healey TUC view.., which takes the headline unemployment figure of nearly 1.2m at face value.
1982 Economist 25 Sept. 34/1 ‘Headline’ unemployment, the measure that is not seasonally adjusted, and includes school leavers, now stands at 3.34m.
1991 Guardian 19 Apr. 15/1 The so-called headline rate of unemployment rose by 97,000 but, after adjusting for seasonal factors, the rise was 16,000.
1999 European Stars & Stripes (Germany) 1 Apr. 19/4 The Japanese jobless rate now exceeds the U.S. rate.., and analysts say the actual situation is far worse than the headline figure suggests.
2008 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 6 Oct. 12 The US's unemployment rate remains steady..as an exodus from the labour force kept the headline rate from blowing out.
b. Designating a rate of inflation based on the consumer price index and reflecting all changes to the cost of living which an economy may undergo; of or relating to a such a rate. Frequently in headline inflation; cf. core inflation at core n.1 Additions.Since headline inflation includes changes in price to items (such as food and energy) which are subject to sudden or temporary price movements, it is sometimes regarded as a less accurate measure of the state of an economy than core inflation.
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1983 Economist 24 Sept. (World Econ. Surv. section) 23/1 A broader measure of inflation..puts this year's inflation about two percentage points higher than the ‘headline’ rate shown by consumer prices.
1988 Times 19 Dec. 22/8 By the first quarter of 1990 headline inflation should be below 4 per cent.
1991 Financial Post (Canada) (Nexis) 17 June (Investm. & Finance section) 20 The key to keeping the disinflation trend intact is to keep wages subdued until the ‘headline’ inflation rate starts to drop sharply.
2011 Sunday Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 24 July 18 While the Reserve focuses on the core or underlying inflation figure.., we in the main experience the headline figure.
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headline maker n. (a) (originally) a person who writes news headlines; (b) (now chiefly) a person who or thing which is the subject of a news headline; a newsworthy person or thing; cf. to make (the) headlines at Phrases.
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1889 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Champion 3 Feb. The patron..proceeds to read that portion of the paper with which the headline-maker and editor has the least, and the honest reporter the most to do.
1906 Liberty June 12 The Mad Venus, as the headline-makers delight to call her, is engaged to be married.
1944 Pop. Mech. Nov. 30/1 Crack pilots such as Douglas ‘Wrong Way’ Corrigan..and scores of other ex-headline-makers are in the organization.
1963 Times 11 June 17/4 The headline-maker..has been the contract from United Airlines.
2003 E. Mink This is Today 54 One of the early headline makers was Matt Lauer's January 27 interview with Mrs. Clinton.
headline news n. (a) news in the form of a headline or headlines; (b) important news.
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1904 Public 27 Feb. 743/2 American newspapers have been full of ‘headline news’ of the war.
1941 B.B.C. Gloss. Broadcasting Terms 14 Headline News: Brief statements giving, within the space of not more than five minutes, salient news items without comment or background material.
1985 L. Barber in Sunday Express 15 Sept. (Mag.) 32/3 Ken Russell was headline news again when he made a rude gesture to the first-night audience of his production of Faust.
2006 Cosmopolitan (U.K. ed.) Aug. (Smart Summer Stuff & Advt. Suppl.) 15 It would be headline news if Britain made it through a summer without it bucketing down.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [verb (transitive)] > tether
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stake1544
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1800 Ld. Somerville Syst. Board Agric. 151 The person alluded to has ‘laid’, without being headlined, fifteen oxen in a row, with more regularity and expedition than would at first perhaps be credited.
1846 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words I. 440/2 Headline, to attach a rope to the head of a bullock. Somerset.
2. transitive. To give (a news story, article, etc.) a headline (frequently with object complement specifying the headline given). Also: to report (a story) as headline news, to regard as important and newsworthy.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [verb (transitive)] > headline
headline1860
1860 N.-Y. Daily Tribune 5 Jan. This report is head-lined as follows: ‘Pro-Slavery Meeting.—A Large Crowd.’
1881 J. C. Ridpath Life & Work of James A. Garfield 607 The optimists on this last day of August head-lined their reports: ‘On the high road to recovery’.
1933 R. E. Garst & T. M. Bernstein Headlines & Deadlines i. i. 12 The copyeditors complete the editing and headline the stories.
1958 Listener 20 Nov. 811/2 The answer..faithfully reported and perhaps headlined the next day in the local press.
2008 P. Brock Charlatan 139 Next day the Associated Press headlined the story: Gun fight climaxes fight with Dr. Fishbein.
3. transitive. Originally U.S. To give top billing to (an act) at an event or venue; (now usually of an act or performer) to have top billing in (a performance, show, etc.); to be the headliner of. Also intransitive. Cf. headliner n.1 2.
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1902 Chicago Tribune 13 May 12/4 The Russell brothers and company are headlined at the Chicago Opera-House.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings vi. 101 I'm not headlined in the bills, but I'm the mustard in the salad dressing just the same.
1908 Washington Post 12 Jan. 3/3 The English actor..has made up his mind to remain here permanently and continue his career in vaudeville. He will headline Chase's bill in a few weeks.
1942 Billboard 21 Feb. 13/2 Headlining are Faye's Boxing Cats, rated as one of the most unusual novelty acts appearing in night clubs.
1964 Melody Maker 28 Nov. 4/2 Nashville Teens, Kinks and Hullaballoos will be headlined in the 10-day Christmas holiday show..at Brooklyn's Fox Theatre.
2006 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 14 Dec. 91/1 Hip Hogmanay bill, headlined by the bludgeoning roots garage of Sons and Daughters.
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