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head·board

(hĕd′bôrd′)

A board or panel that forms the head, as of a bed.

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headboard

(ˈhɛdˌbɔːd)

(Furniture) a vertical board or terminal at the head of a bed

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

head•board

(ˈhɛdˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd)

n.

a board forming the head of something, as a bed.

[1720–30]

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Noun

headboard - a vertical board or panel forming the head of a bedstead

bedframe, bedstead - the framework of a bed

panel - sheet that forms a distinct (usually flat and rectangular) section or component of something

Translations

päätysänky

testata

headboard

[ˈhedˌbɔːd] N → cabecera f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

headboard

[ˈhɛdbɔː^rd] n → tête f de lithead boy n (British) élève de terminale assumant diverses responsabilitéshead-butt headbutt [ˈhɛdbʌt]

vt → donner un coup de tête à

n → coup m de têtehead chef n → chef m, chef m de cuisinehead cold n → rhume m de cerveauhead count headcount [ˈhɛdkaʊnt] n (= number of people at event) → nombre m de personnes présentes (= number of employees) → effectifs mpl
to do a head count → compter combien il y a de personnes

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

headboard

[ˈhɛdˌbɔːd] n → testiera (del letto)

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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All at once the doctor flung himself free, seized the heavy headboard of Williams' grave and felled Potter to the earth with it -- and in the same instant the half-breed saw his chance and drove the knife to the hilt in the young man's breast.

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The man who told me what the name was said it had been cut on the headboard."

It was a fallen headboard, and painted on it were the hardly decipherable words, "Catharine Larue."

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