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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Header \Head"er\, n. 1. One who or that which heads nails, rivets, etc., esp. a machine for heading. 2. One who heads a movement, a party, or a mob; head; chief; leader. [R.] 3. (Arch.) a A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall. b In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them and carrying the ends of the tailpieces. 4. A reaper for wheat, that cuts off the heads only. 5. A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as to take a header. [Colloq.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: header n 1: horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window [syn: {lintel}] 2: brick that are laid sideways at the top of a wall [syn: {coping}, {cope}] 3: 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 4: a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon 5: (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head 6: a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery" From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: header 1. The portion of a {packet}, preceding the actual data, containing source and destination addresses, error checking and other fields. 2. The part of an {electronic mail} message or {news} article that precedes the body of a message and contains, among other things the sender's name and e-mail address and the date and time the message was sent.
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