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n. 1 That part of a matchlock or flintlock gun or rifle that holds the burning fuse or flint and applies it to the gunpowder. 2 (label en mythology) A mythical creature with a human body and a dog's head.
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Doghead is a comic book by Al Columbia. His first solo publication, it was released by Tundra Publishing in 1992 while he was involved with Alan Moore's ill-fated Big Numbers series. It contains three short stories, two in black and white and one in full color. Paul Gravett described it as "three dark, stylish tales, indebted to Sienkiewicz and McKean but with hints of [Columbia's] emerging singular identity". In a 1998 profile of Columbia, Marshall Pryor characterized the comic as "forgettable, but lovely, work - perhaps most notable for its experimentation with disturbing single images and animation-style movement, strengths of his later comics."
The last page of Doghead includes Columbia's "apologies" to some of his early sources of inspiration, including Black Francis, Nick Cave, William S. Burroughs, Dave McKean, David Lynch, Franz Kafka, and J. G. Ballard.
The doghead or cynocephaly phenomenon is a widespread legend involving creatures with human bodies and the heads of dogs.
Doghead may also refer to:
- Doghead (comics), a 1992 comic book by Al Columbia
- Doghead (firearms), a component of matchlock and flintlock guns
- Doghead (novel), a novel by Danish author Morten Ramsland
Usage examples of "doghead".
He brought up the musket, folded the leather over the flint and seated it in the doghead, men looked up to see that the mass of the enemy was now just a hundred paces away.
He fired, and the golden tiger-mask doghead snapped forward onto the fiizzen.
They looked a beaten, ragtag unit, but they were still Riflemen and every Baker rifle had an oiled lock and, gripped in its doghead, a sharp-edged flint.
Some of them had no flints, others had no leather flint atings, while one gun did not even have the doghead screw to hold the flint in place.
The flint had skewed in the doghead and he released the screw, adjusted the leather patch that gripped the flint, then tightened it down.
He brought up the musket, folded the leather over the flint and seated it in the doghead, then looked up to see that the mass of the enemy was now just a hundred paces away.
He fired, and the golden tiger-mask doghead snapped forward onto the frizzen.
To tear off the ends of the thick cartridge paper, prime the gun, close the frizzen, upend the musket, pour the powder, put in the ball, ram the ball and paper, drop the ramrod into the barrel rings, bring the musket to the shoulder, pull the doghead to full cock, aim at the smoke, remember to aim low, wait for the order.
Some of them had no flints, others had no leather flint-seatings, while one gun did not even have the doghead screw to hold the flint in place.
Checkerboard regained horizontal attitude, and Doghead pressed on the trigger button again.
Aedhir snapped, holding the doghead cocked with the pad of his thumb, his finger tightening slightly against the trigger.
He scuffed the powder into the earth and then, just to make sure the weapon could not fire, he wrenched the doghead away from the lock and threw it into the river.
This fitted on to a small projection at the side of the pistolthe spindle of the serrated wheel which the main spring would spin against the flint gripped in the doghead and, as the pancover slid back, shower sparks into the pan to set off the priming powder and send a spurt of flame down the touchhole into the breech.
He held his pistol canted so that the priming powder covered the touchhole and slid his thumb on to the doghead, ready to cock the piece.
Yorke pressed the muzzle into the neck and pulled back the doghead, cocking the gun .