[ UK /hˈɛdɡi‍ə/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛdˌɡɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
  1. clothing for the head
  2. stable gear consisting of any part of a harness that fits about the horse's head
  3. the hoist at the pithead of a mine
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How To Use headgear In A Sentence

  • Browning is said to have written back that he used it to mean a piece of headgear for nuns, comparable to the cowls for monks he put in the same line.
  • Some may choose to wear things like the hijab, turban or kippa, but that's another story, because somehow headgear bothers a whole lot of people. Ajarat Bada: Fatwa For Tebow
  • Protective pads and headgear would be encouraged to reduce the amount of fatalities right off the bat.
  • The traffic in eggs and the demand for breast feathers for ladies' muffs and headgear reduced the bird's numbers to a low ebb.
  • In most Wigan mines, though, the standard headgear was a woven scarf or shawl, the standard footwear the clog.
  • Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon. The Seattle Times
  • Protective headgear and full motorcycle leathers are required to be worn to comply with race safety.
  • Hats, caps or other headgear can be worn to protect the head and face from being coloured with hard-to-rinse dyes.
  • There were four men aboard the boat, still wearing wet suits, including headgear.
  • The technique was commonly used for different kinds of headgear, such as caps, hoods, bonnets, hairnets and snoods, as well as for stockings, mittens, collars and sashes.
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