Crossword clues for headboard
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headboard \Head"board`\ (h[e^]d"b[=o]rd`), n. A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything; as, the headboard of a bed; the headboard of a grave.
Wiktionary
n. A vertical panel, either plain or upholstered, attached to the head of a bed.
WordNet
n. a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead
Wikipedia
Headboard may refer to:
- Headboard (furniture), a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed
- "Headboard" (song), a 2009 song by rapper Hurricane Chris featuring Mario and Plies
- Headboard (train), a board attached to the front of trains, especially named trains
- Headboard (ship), a fitting on a sail often used to attach halyards with a headboard shackle
- A gravemarker made of wood, commonly used as a temporary marker, and in America before the commodification of stone gravemarkers
A headboard is a board hung on the front of a locomotive. Generally it can depict a named train. Headboards are distinct from locomotive nameplates.
In the United Kingdom, headboards were common on the public railway in the age of steam and into the age of Diesel and electric trains, although in modern times, use of headboards on scheduled trains is now defunct, although headboards are often still used on the occasion of a "last train", such as the withdrawal of a particular class of train. On the scheduled network, headboards were used to denote special named trains, such as luxury pullmans, blue riband expresses or other once a day special services such as boat trains. Latterly, headboards are still used by railtour companies, to denote the name of a tour, or more generally the name of the organisation running a tour. Headboards are also frequently used on heritage railway line services to denote special trains or events. Common practice in the UK is to display the headboard on the front of a locomotive (temporarily attached, to denote the name of the train or other purpose), and to have the nameplate of the locomotive on the side of the locomotive (permanently attached to denote the name of the locomotive). Confusion may have arisen over the example of the "Flying Scotsman" — where The Flying Scotsman is a famous named train service operating since 1862, after which a now famous locomotive, the 1923 built No. 4472 Flying Scotsman was named — while the Flying Scotsman headboard has been worn by many different locomotives over the years, when No. 4472 was running the service for which it was built, this would give rise to No. 4472 displaying the name Flying Scotsman on both the front and the side of the locomotive.
Headboard is the second single by American rapper Hurricane Chris from his second studio album, Unleashed. The song was produced by The Inkredibles. The song features a guest appearances from Mario and Plies.
The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Historically, they served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed to create space from the wall (via thicker end pillars) they allowed falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed.
Today in better heated and insulated residences headboards serve chiefly aesthetic and utilitarian functions such as to keep pillows from falling off the bed. They may include storage space for books and personal items, and conveniences such as lights and telephone. Those of hospital beds may incorporate critical care functions.
A headboard may often be complemented by a footboard for aesthetic balance.
Usage examples of "headboard".
Viv punched the fiberfill pillow against the headboard and came to an unpleasant conclusion.
The Negress turned at the top of the stairs and led the way to the master bedroom, a large room occupied by a huge four-poster canopied bed, with the family crest carved into the headboard and yards of mosquito netting tied to the posters.
Teddy Tumtum leaned over the top of the headboard, a mischievous glint in his eyes.
A small bed with a quilted cover sat along the righthand wall with its headboard in the far corner.
She scooted up to the headboard and rolled into a ball with her knees tucked under her chin.
The Slugabeds, looking like unrolled sleeping bags, were arrayed on a carpeted platform, without frames or headboards or box springs.
As the magic brightened around her father, constraining and then quieting him, she sat back against the headboard with a sigh.
Once the bed-shelf was removed (and it would be easy to knock it off its support brackets, unanchored as it was), she would do a backover roll and plant her bare feet against the wall above the top of the headboard.
Worse still, in his opinion, was the bedroom furniture: chests and tables with cold marble tops, a platform rocker too dainty in scale, and an enormous headboard of dark wood, intricately designed and reaching almost to the ceiling.
Sharpe looked about the big cabin that was furnished with two sofas, a sideboard, a low table, a harp and an enormous teak bed with ivory inlays on the headboard.
She had twin beds with blond-wood headboards, a blond bed table, an old forty-five record player with a fat black spindle, and a black canvas-and-wrought-iron butterfly chair covered with discarded clothing.
Cruncher by the ears, and knocking the back of her head against the headboard of the bed.
I've put a CD of the Traveling Wilburys into a portable CD player that sits on the headboard above the bed, to mute any screams.
The fire made her chamber toasty, and there was a flask of cider wine in a cubbyhole in the headboard.
There was a large bed with a carved wooden headboard, a tall window obscured by long velvet curtains and a chandelier thickly coated in dust with candle scrubs still resting in its sockets, solid wax banging in frostlike drips.