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headstroke

headstroke noun: a horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.

Noun

headstroke (plural headstrokes)

  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.2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard

Forms of headstroke

pluralheadstrokes

Origin of headstroke

From head + stroke.

Questions about headstroke

What does headstroke mean?
Headstroke means a horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
What part of speech is headstroke?
Headstroke is a noun.
What is the plural of headstroke?
The plural of headstroke is headstrokes.

Words near headstroke in the dictionary

  1. headstraps
  2. headstream
  3. headstreams
  4. headstripe
  5. headstripes
  6. headstroke
  7. headstrokes
  8. Headstrom
  9. headstrong
  10. headstrongly
  11. headstrongness

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