Definitions for: Heading


[n] (mining) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
[n] a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
[n] the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies



Webster (1913) Definition: Head"ing, n.
1. The act or state of one who, or that which, heads;
formation of a head.

2. That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a
paper.

3. Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

4. (Mining.) A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the
end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

5. (sewing) The extension of a line ruffling above the line
of stitch.

6. (Masonry) That end of a stone or brick which is presented
outward. --Knight.

Heading course (Arch.), a course consisting only of
headers. See Header, n. 3
(a) .

Heading joint.
(a) (Carp.) A joint, as of two or more boards, etc., at
right angles to the grain of the wood.
(b) (Masonry) A joint between two roussoirs in the same
course.

Synonyms: aim, bearing, drift, gallery, head, header

See Also: crosshead, crossheading, direction, headline, lemma, line, newspaper headline, passageway, rubric, running head, running headline, statute title, subhead, subheading, tack, title, way

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