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headstocks

n. (plural of headstock English)

Usage examples of "headstocks".

On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and the up-pricked headstocks of the pit, stood in black silhouette small against the sky.

He never went past the pits at night, by the lighted lamp-house, the tall black headstocks and lines of trucks, past the fans spinning slowly like shadows, without the feeling of Miriam returning to him, keen and almost unbearable.

I like the rows of trucks, and the headstocks, and the steam in the daytime, and the lights at night.