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headboard [′hed‚bȯrd] (mining engineering) A wooden wedge placed against the hanging wall, and against which one end of the stull is jammed. A board in the roof of a heading, contacting the earth above and supported by a headtree on each side. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams' grave and felled Potter to the earth with it -- and in the same instant the half-breed saw his chance and drove the knife to the hilt in the young man's breast. The man who told me what the name was said it had been cut on the headboard. Rushing to the building, it perceived the lightning rod, clambered up with inconceivable agility, grasped the shutter, which was thrown fully back against the wall, and, by its means, swung itself directly upon the headboard of the bed. |
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