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Noun header has 7 senses

heading, header, head - a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about; "the heading seemed to have little to do with the text"
--₁ is a kind of line
--₁ has particulars:
crossheading, crosshead; headline, newspaper headline; lemma; rubric; running head, running headline; subheading, subhead; title, statute title, rubric

Derived form: verb head₇
header, lintel - horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window
--₂ is a kind of beam
header, coping, cope - brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall
--₃ is a kind of brick
--₃ is a part of wall
header - a framing member crossing and supporting the ends of joists, studs, or rafters so as to transfer their weight to parallel joists, studs, or rafters
--₄ is a kind of beam
header - a machine that cuts the heads off grain and moves them into a wagon
--₅ is a kind of harvester, reaper
header - (soccer) the act of hitting the ball with your head
--₆ is a kind of hit, hitting, striking
header - a headlong jump (or fall); "he took a header into the shrubbery"
--₇ is a kind of jump, jumping