Noun

(en noun)

The upper portion of a page (or other) layout.

If you reduce the header of this document, the body will fit onto a single page.

Text, or other visual information, used to mark off a quantity of text, often titling]] or [[summarize, summarizing it.

Your header is too long; "Local Cannibals" will suffice.

Text, or other visual information, that goes at the top of a column of information in a table.

That column should have the header "payment status".

(informal) A font, text style, or typesetting used for any of the above.

Parts of speech belong in a level-three header . Level-two headers are reserved for the name of the language.

a brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall or within the brickwork with the short side showing; compare stretcher

This wall has four header courses.

a horizontal structural or finish piece over an opening

a machine that cuts the heads off of grain etc

They fed the bale into the header .

(soccer) the act of hitting the ball with the head

His header for the goal followed a perfect corner kick.

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, year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Black Cats had a mountain to climb after James Morrison's header and Shane Long's neat side-foot finish gave Albion a 2-0 lead five minutes in.}}

a headlong fall or jump

''The clown tripped over the other clown and took a header .

(computing) the first part of a file or record that describes its contents

The header includes an index, an identifier, and a pointer to the next entry.

(networking) the first part of a packet, often containing its address and descriptors

The encapsulation layer adds an eight-byte header and a two-byte trailer to each packet.

A raised tank that supplies water at constant pressure, especially to a central heating and hot water system

A pipe which connects several smaller pipes.

Common practice is to use plastic pipes with iron headers .

Noun

(en noun)

One who, or that which, stretches.

A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

* {{quote-news

, year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The goal also cost the Blues the services of Luiz, who was injured in attempting to clear and was taken off on a stretcher and replaced by Gary Cahill.}}

A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

A brick laid with the longest side exposed (compare header).

(Gwilt)

(architecture) A piece of timber used in building.

(slang) A lie; an overstretching of the truth.

(nautical) A board against which a rower places his feet.

(nautical) A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and gripped.

(Dana)

One of the rods in an umbrella, attached at one end to one of the ribs, and at the other to the tube sliding upon the handle.

An instrument for stretching boots or gloves.

(obsolete) A penis, especially a long penis.

{{quote-Fanny Hill, part=3 , When our mutual trance was a little over, and the young fellow had withdrawn that delicious stretcher , with which he had most plentifully drowned all thoughts of revenge in the sense of actual pleasure, the widen'd wounded passage refunded a stream of pearly liquids, which flowed down my thighs, mixed with streaks of blood}}