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headstrokes

headstrokes is the plural of headstroke.

Meaning of headstroke

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

Questions about headstrokes

What is headstrokes the plural of?
Headstrokes is the plural of headstroke.

Words near headstrokes in the dictionary

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

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