Definition of "headstocks" [headstocks]

• Plural form of headstock. (noun)

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• "Second offense is a choice between corporal punishment by flogging or public humiliation through a day in the headstocks."
• "There was a stiff, modern, grey little church, and blocks and rows of red dwellings lying at random; at the back, the twinkling headstocks of the pit, and the looming pit-hill."
• "And the children, as they come from school at dinner-time, looking down the fields and seeing the wheels on the headstocks standing, say:"