horsehead

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  1. In machinery, a lever, so named because of its shape, used on a Heilmann cotton-combing machine as part of the detaching mechanism. Thornley, Cotton Combing Machines, p. 163.

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  • One of the first things I looked for was in Orion—the dark "horsehead" nebula near Zeta of that constellation. —  Wonder Stories Quarterly Summer 1932
  • "Watch your tail, horsehead," she told him as she took the darker passage. —  Swell Foop
  • He also has 300 match boxes with a horsehead on the cover and hundreds of others with different pictures, including Bollywood stars and satellites of India. —  India eNews
  • The Buryats of the far east is known for distinctive folk music which uses the two-stringed horsehead fiddle, or morin khur. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Might actually be true, though a metaphorical horsehead. —  TEAMtalk Football News
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