Clamp vs Headstock - What's the difference?
clamp | headstock |
A brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together.
A mass of bricks heaped up to be burned; or of ore for roasting, or of coal coking.
A piece of wood (batten) across the grain of a board end to keep it flat, as in a breadboard.
A heavy footstep; a tramp.
(intransitive) To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp .
* 1897 , (Bram Stoker), (Dracula) Chapter 21
To tread heavily or clumsily; to clump or clomp.
* Thackeray
To hold or grip tightly.
To modify a numeric value so it lies within a specific range.
(UK, obsolete, transitive) To cover (vegetables, etc.) with earth.
A headframe.
A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that supports a rotating part
* 1913 , DH Lawrence,
A beam that supports a bell.
A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
The part of a guitar that holds the tensioning screws of the strings.
As nouns the difference between clamp and headstock
is that clamp is a brace, band, or clasp for strengthening or holding things together while headstock is {{cx|mining|lang=en}} A headframe.As a verb clamp
is to fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp.clamp
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* clover clamp * nipple clampVerb
(en verb)- As we burst into the room, the Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion. The great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge, and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, clamped together like those of a wild beast.
- The policeman with clamping feet.
Derived terms
* clamp downSee also
* clasp * vise, viceheadstock
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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.
