Definition of "head-cloth" [head-cloth]

• A canvas screen for the head of a ship. (noun)
• A piece of stuff, broader than a fillet, used to cover the head wholly or in part, or to wind around a cap. Compare turban. (noun)
• In upholstery, that one of the bed-curtains which hangs behind the head of the bed from the tester. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The main thing, of course, is not how the head-cloth was left behind, but that it was deliberately deposited somewhere else: Here is the risen lord, moving from A. to B., doing something with his hands, then emerging bodily into the light of dawn to commence His fifty days in the world."
• "I called him in to give him an embroidered head-cloth as reward for faithful service."
• "Turki much distinguished himself by quick coolness, though his straight-stocked Turkish cavalry carbine made him so expose his head that he got four bullets through his head-cloth."