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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A headframe.

   “It was a beautiful day. At Brinsley pit the white steam melted slowly in the sunshine of a soft blue sky; the wheels of the headstocks twinkled high up; the screen, shuffling its coal into the trucks, made a busy noise.”

2. isim A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
3. isim A beam that supports a bell.
4. isim A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
5. isim The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
6. isim A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.

   “The two-axle bogies, of Metro-Vick swing-link type, are of one-piece cast-steel construction with box-section side frames and headstocks.”