What is "headgears"

Usage examples of "headgears".

The valley was filled with early morning mist, and the mine headgears probed up out of it.

There were new buildings and headgears half a mile farther along the ridge, but here the reef had been worked out and abandoned.

As the train ran on they saw wonder followed by wonder, taller buildings than they had ever believed possible, roads that ran like rivers of steel with growling vehicles, tall chimneys that filled the sky with black thunderclouds, and multitudes upon multitudes, human beings more numerous than the springbok migrations of the Kalahari, black men in silver helmets and knee-high rubber boots, regiments of them, marching towards the tall headgears or, as the shifts changed, wearily swarming back from the shafts splashed from head to foot with yellow mud.

In the boat lights they displayed odd headgears and elaborate harness arrangements… and, of course, they might be carrying concealed weapons.

The mine headgears were spidery steel structures against the pale cloudless blue of the highveld winter sky.

In the boat lights they displayed odd headgears and elaborate harness arrangements .