Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as headlong.

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  • adverb Headlong; precipitately.
  • noun obsolete An equal; a fellow; mate.
  • noun obsolete A chieftain.

Etymologies

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From Middle English hedling, heedling, hevedlynge ("headlong"), equivalent to head +‎ -ling; and with adverbial genitive -s, -es, hedlinges, hedlynges, equivalent to headling +‎ -s. Cognate with Scots heidlingis ("headlong"), Middle High German houbetlingen ("headlong").

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From Middle English hedling, hevedling, from Old English hēafodling ("an equal, fellow-servant"), equivalent to head +‎ -ling. Cognate with German Häuptling ("chief, chieftain").

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Examples

  • I'm not the one handing out negative feedback for dissent, calling anyone a nazi, a piece of "crap," concocting psychological diagnoses about a 75 year old lady on the basis of something I've read in a headling, calling her other names, or demanding her institutionalization, or insisting she be charged with all manner of offenses that really don't fit the action.

    Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death 2009

  • When Adam wants to ‘stay put’ then, maybe a month headling in Las Vegas once a year or Broadway - if it can hold his interest.

    Adam Lambert wants to act? What should he do? | EW.com 2009

  • I'm not the one handing out negative feedback for dissent, calling anyone a nazi, a piece of "crap," concocting psychological diagnoses about a 75 year old lady on the basis of something I've read in a headling, calling her other names, or demanding her institutionalization, or insisting she be charged with all manner of offenses that really don't fit the action.

    Elderly Women Charged With Beating Fawn To Death 2009

  • The FT's story headling Labour and the economy was simply skipped over.

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • No wonder, it carries a cast headling Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper and Craig T. Nelson, all of whom can be seen in the first trailer that's arrived online.

    Filmstalker: The Company Men trailer online 2010

  • Had Hillary won Guam that would not be the dominating headling.

    Obama edges Clinton in island squeaker 2008

  • Here is the spin, when you take what he actually said and the words of the headling, they infer and state two complete different things.

    Obama: I have a problem courting seniors 2008

  • I don't see how you get divisive and calculating in the headling unless you start reading into his comments, which is a pretty slippery slope that could end up resulting in editorial irrelevancy in the future.

    Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive 2009

  • I don't see how you get divisive and calculating in the headling unless you start reading into his comments, which is a pretty slippery slope that could end up resulting in editorial irrelevancy in the future.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Obama Attacks Hillary As Calculating And Divisive 2009

  • Also, absolutely love Willem Defoe in Platoon plunging headling into the jungle screaming at the top of lungs and maniacally shooting everything that crossed his path.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Anzac Day 2009

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