headshield

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

head +‎ shield

Noun[edit]

headshield (plural headshields)

  1. A helmet or similar covering that protects the head.
    • 1955, The Welding Engineer, volume 40, page 50:
      Two new molded fiber-glass plastic headshields for weldors are reported to offer the user lighter weight comfort with complete head protection from the welding arc and spatter.
  2. A cephalon of a trilobite.
    • 1985, E. W. Nield, Ted Nield, V. C. T. Tucker, Palaeontology, an Introduction:
      Trilobites have a distinct headshield or cephalon and a distinct tailshield or pygidium, and in both these regions the original segmentation has been suppressed — more completely in the cephalon than in the pygidium — and [...]
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