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1642 J. Goodwin Anti-Cavalierisme 4 Head-worke is every whit as necessary in such a time and exigent, as hand-work is.

1689 J. Flavell Englands Duty v. 168 The Head-Work is done, but O that the Heart-Work were done too.

1764 tr. F. Algarotti Ess. on Painting 175 The Mathematician, whose business, being all head-work, requires a most intense meditation.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers liv. 587 How the blazes you can stand the head-work you do, is a mystery to me.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iv. xxxiii. 351 His headwork was so much more important to Burge than his skill in handicraft.

1898 Argosy Sept. 355 Ensign Dudley had performed his duties with about as much headwork as an automaton.

1942 B. Bandel Let. 22 July in S. J. Bugbee Officer & Lady (2004) 9 The officers..are doing a lot of head work on this business, & burning a lot of midnight oil.

1951 Pop. Sci. Oct. 212/1 Headwork can save you a lot of hard labor, even in the little jobs.

2004 I. McDonald River of Gods (2005) xv. 164 We do most of the hot stuff over on the University collider..but this is where the real work gets done. The headwork.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field ii. 22 There is a deal of head-work in bowling.

1898 B. 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.

1912 Outlook 19 Oct. 329/2 To play baseball of the character which these men play requires..a high degree of a certain kind of intelligence which is known professionally as ‘head work’.

1937 Boys' Life Oct. 10/1 Wonderful play! Good headwork! Smart kid, that quarterback! Nice strategy!

1958 F. C. Avis Boxing Ref. Dict. (U.S. ed.) 52 Headwork, craftiness in boxing.

2006 J. Shiffert Base Ball in Philadelphia ii. 236 Pratt was known for his headwork, his ability to deceive batters, despite throwing nothing but fastballs.

1823 Washington Q. Mag. 1 127 The head works which are used with these booms..are constructed, as follows.

1884 Forestry Aug. 297 The headworks, with capstan and bars, to warp the timber across the lakes.

1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 40 Headworks, a platform or raft, with windlass 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.

1913 R. C. Bryant Logging iv. 377 Where the distance is short and the amount of timber to be moved is limited, it is ‘kedged’ or ‘warped’ by ‘headworks’.

2000 W. M. Macdougall Old Somerset Railroad ix.118 The boom was attached to a ‘headworks’, a raft with a small, plank cabin and a large capstan.

1852 Ann. Rep. Board Public Wks. Wisconsin 74 In no case shall the stern or bow of any boat or float, approaching..a lock, be permitted to run against or strike the head works of either of the gates of such lock.

1888 R. Kipling Abaft Funnel (1909) 117 He had the embankments to look after, and I was in charge of the headworks.

1891 Scribner's Mag. 10 468 The river flowing between firm banks, could be permanently controlled by head~works of masonry.

1903 Sci. 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.

1971 N. Smith Hist. Dams i. 10 The headworks of the irrigation canal.

2000 Dawn (Karachi) 16 Apr. 12/3 I had myself seen these routes in operation at Sulemanki headworks.