headsheet

Noun

1. A poster or booklet containing headshots and brief descriptions of the models or actors represented by a modelling or talent agency.
   • I asked for the names of a couple of the advertising agencies to which the company representatives send the headsheet, to verify that they do what they claimed. - 1998, Susan M. Halter, Modeling How One Parent Started...
   • Not unlike the agency book, the headsheet is sent around to various clients and photographers as a quick-glance reference. - 2000, Erin Pinckney, The Truth on Modeling:
   • Too often, it's nothing more than labelling and a moving headsheet of actors. - 2004, Systems Design Limited, Moview, →ISBN:
2. The front page of a newspaper, containing the main headlines.
   • He was infuriated, and wrote forthwith a challenge to Daniel scrawled on a newspaper headsheet. - 1934, Hervey Allen, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe, page 614:
   • And even when the headsheet gives an afterthought to these things, the results can be dismal. - 1974, Laura Longley Babb, Of the Press, by the Press, for the Press (and Others, Too):, →ISBN, page 66:
3. Synonym of coversheet.
   • A headsheet may be provided, to which these worksheets are attached, and on which descriptions, element times, and the job standard are shown. - 1945, Wayne Leslie McNaughton, Industrial Economy and Labor Control, page...
   • COPY the agency identification number from the blue sheet into the space provided on the headsheet of this booklet. - 1979, Larry A. Giddings, Diana Sooy, National Symposium on Job-Task Analysis in Criminal Justice,...

   Synonyms: coversheet

4. Synonym of foresheet.
   • Hilloa, the periagua !” it cried. “ Haul over your headsheet, and jam the tiller down into the lap of that comfortable-looking old gentleman. - 1873, James Fenimore Cooper, The Water-witch Or the Skimmer of the Seas: A...
   • Why don't you haul your headsheet to windward and Starboard your tiller. - 1914, Happy Days: A Paper for Young and Old - Issues 1051-1100, page 33:
   • There has been great controversy as to the position in the barge in which the last reel was deposited. The plaintiff says that it was only some 2 or 3 ft. from the headsheet, and that it was in the centre line between...

   Synonyms: foresheet

5. A cloth that covers the pillows at the head of a bed, protecting them from hair oils, etc.
   • If he is inclined to take a nap after dinner, ' his stomak to digest,' kerchief and comb, pillow and headsheet are to be got ready, and he is not to be allowed to sleep too long. - 1871, Belgravia - Volume 14, page 128:
   • To said Duglas Sheffeild second best bed at Ealinge, chaiers. stooles, creepers, fyer pann, tongues and other furniture in the chamber; also little basin and silver candlestick which I usually have in my chamber etc.;...
   • In 1494 the two large pillows had been covered by a headsheet which seems to have fallen out of fashion in the sixteenth century as there are very few amongst Henry VIII's goods (12686). - 2012, Reports of the Research...
6. Synonym of headcloth.
   • Her headsheet is wrapped half across her face, only her large, kohl-blackened eyes showing. - 1979, Jane Sherman, The drama of Denishawn dance, page 37:
   • The door, however, did not open, and within the minute he whirled to a staccato rap on the pane beyond the door grill, confronting a grizzled face beneath a headsheet crowned with a frayed fillet. - 1992, George Core,...
   • The ceremony of divorce is simple. The man tears the headsheet of the woman in half and hands it over to her. - 1996, K. Mann, Tribal Women: On the Threshold of Twenty-first Century, →ISBN, page 91:

   Synonyms: headcloth

7. A sheet of metal that guards the front or head of something.
   • The number and size of tubes in a given area of headsheet and their relative positions have much to do with the steaming qualities of boilers. - 1884, Henry Coddington Meyer, Charles Frederick Wingate, The Engineering...
   • From headsheet to tailgate— from top roll to longitudinals— every Galion Allsteel dump body is built to give long service life. - 1955, Roads and Streets - Volume 98, page 127:
   • The bed is constructed of 0.250-inch-thick high-hard steel, and the headsheet and sides are of 7-gage steel. - 1999, The Engineer - Volume 29, Issue 3, page 52: