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headstroke

noun

Etymology

From head + stroke.

  1. derived from *streyg-✻ — “to rub, stroke; to shear; to strike”
  2. inherited from *straikaz✻ — “stroke”
  3. inherited from *straik✻
  4. inherited from strāc
  5. inherited from strok
  6. compounded as headstroke — “head + stroke”

Definitions

  1. A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.

  2. In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word.

    • The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA