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1. A line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
   "the header seemed to have little to do with the text";
   - heading, head
    
2. Horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
   - lintel
    
3. Brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
   - coping, cope
    
4. A framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
    
5. A machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
    
6. (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
    
7. A headlong jump (or fall)
   "he took a header into the shrubbery"

Derived forms: headers

Type of: beam, brick, harvester, hit, hitting, jump, jumping, line, reaper, striking

Part of: wall

Encyclopedia: Header