"headstroke" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: headstrokes [plural]
Etymology: From head + stroke. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|head|stroke}} head + stroke Head templates: {{en-noun}} headstroke (plural headstrokes)
  1. A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T.
    Sense id: en-headstroke-en-noun-XTBQtFfR
  2. (linguistics) In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-headstroke-en-noun-OWt473t4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 3 97 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: overbar

Inflected forms

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        {
          "ref": "2003, Richard Gillam, Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer's Guide to the Encoding Standard:",
          "text": "The distinguishing feature of Oriya letters is the curved headstroke instead of the straight horizontal headstroke of Devanagari, Bengali, and Gurmukhi.",
          "type": "quote"
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    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
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        "A horizontal line at the top of a letter such as F or T."
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        "In some language scripts, a line written over the letters of a word."
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