Crossword clues for headstock
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Headstock \Head"stock`\ (-st[o^]k`), n. (Mach.) A part (usually separate from the bed or frame) for supporting some of the principal working parts of a machine; as:
The part of a lathe that holds the revolving spindle and its attachments; -- also called poppet head, the opposite corresponding part being called a tailstock.
The part of a planing machine that supports the cutter, etc.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx mining English) A headframe. 2 A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that supports a rotating part 3 A beam that supports a bell. 4 A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck. 5 The part of a guitar that holds the tensioning screws of the strings.
WordNet
n. the stationary support in a machine or power tool that supports and drives a revolving part (as a chuck or the spindle on a lathe)
Wikipedia
A headstock or peghead is part of a guitar or similar stringed instrument such as a lute, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and others of the lute lineage. The main function of a headstock is to house the pegs or mechanism that holds the strings at the "head" of the instrument. At the "tail" of the instrument the strings are usually held by a tailpiece or bridge. Machine heads on the headstock are commonly used to tune the instrument by adjusting the tension of strings and, consequentially, the pitch of sound they produce.
Headstock is a part of guitar or similar stringed instrument.
Headstock may also refer to:
- Headstock (mine), the structure above an underground mine shaft
- Headstock (rolling stock), part of a rail vehicle
- Headstock, part of a lathe
- Headstock, the hold on a ring of bells
A headstock of a rail vehicle is a transverse structural member located at the extreme end of the vehicle's underframe. The headstock supports the coupling at that end of the vehicle, and may also support buffers, in which case it may also be known as a buffer beam. The headstocks form part of the underframe of a locomotive or a railroad car. The headstocks of locomotives, railcars and cabcars also support headlamps and the hoses for air brakes, vacuum brakes as well as the cables for train control and head end power.
Usage examples of "headstock".
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.
He glanced at the faded backs of the reference books, idly spun the loose headstock of a bench lathe, curiously tapped the time-stiffened keys of a tiny portable calculating machine - which must have been a remote cybernectic forebear of the humanoids themselves.