Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A board or panel that forms the head, as of a bed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A board forming or placed at the head of anything, as of a cart, a grave, etc.; especially, the board which forms the head of a bedstead.
- noun pl. Naut., the berthing or close boarding between the head-rails.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A board or boarding which marks or forms the head of anything
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vertical panel , either plain or upholstered, attached to thehead of abed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead
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Examples
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Above the headboard is a painting of a dead child (Frida was unable to bear children) and at the foot of the bed a photo assemblage of Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Engels and Mao (both Riveras flirted with communism).
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Above the headboard is a painting of a dead child (Frida was unable to bear children) and at the foot of the bed a photo assemblage of Stalin, Lenin, Marx, Engels and Mao (both Riveras flirted with communism).
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i love the lightnings in headboard and the bathroom nearby.
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A small panel in the wall next to the headboard was the intercom outlet.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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A poster of an Italian soccer team was on the wall opposite her bed, and over the headboard was a hand-carved crucifix.
The 6th Target Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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Esskay subscribed to the Manifest Destiny theory of sleeping space, and the headboard was her horizon.
In a Strange City Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2001
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On a nail near the headboard was a heavy ring with dozens of keys.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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On a nail near the headboard was a heavy ring with dozens of keys.
Night World No. 1 L.J. Smith 1996
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Above the headboard was a painting of a beautiful young woman in a garden setting feeding a parrot.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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Above the headboard was a painting of a beautiful young woman in a garden setting feeding a parrot.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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