Definitions for headgear

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headgear head·gear

Spelling: [hed-geer]

IPA: /ˈhɛdˌgɪər/

Headgear is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in headgear (aadeeghr).

Definitions for headgear

noun

1. any covering for the head, especially a hat, cap, bonnet, etc.
2. a protective covering for the head, as a steel helmet or football helmet.
3. the parts of a harness about the animal's head.
4. Orthodontics Informal. a device worn on the head and attached by wires and elastic bands to braces in the mouth, used to create backward tension in the process of repositioning protruding teeth.
5. Mining. a headframe and its machinery.

Origin of headgear

First recorded in 1530-40; head + gear

Examples for headgear

Perry, for his part, wore no headgear that might detract from his wonderful hair.

The prevailing color is pink; the headgear: red bows and ears; the guests: super giddy.

An indispensable form of headgear for the traveller in Africa.

That the chief form of headgear among the Swiss is the Alpine hat.

British tradition dictates that the posher you are, the more eccentric the headgear.

On his head he wore a sort of headgear, bound round and closed at the top.

Both Queen Elizabeth and Kate Middleton used ribbons to dress up their headgear.

Manners and customs change no less quickly than headgear and skirts.

"Thank you, sir," replied one of the men, touching the brim of his headgear.

They stopped a few yards from a pit shaft with its headgear and wheel.