Usually means: Holds strings, supports guitar neck.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word headstock:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. headstock: Merriam-Webster
  2. headstock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. headstock: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. headstock: Collins English Dictionary
  5. headstock: Vocabulary.com
  6. headstock: Wordnik
  7. Headstock, Headstock: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. headstock: Wiktionary
  9. headstock: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. headstock: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. headstock: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Headstock, headstock: Dictionary.com
  13. Headstock (rolling stock), Headstock: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Headstock: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. headstock: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. headstock: Rhymezone
  17. Headstock: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. headstock: FreeDictionary.org
  19. headstock: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. headstock: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. headstock: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Banjo Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headstock: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headstock: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. headstock: The Folk File

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (headstock)

noun:  (mining) A headframe.
noun:  A part of a machine (such as a lathe or drill) that contains the primary spindle.
noun:  A beam that supports a bell.
noun:  A clamp that restrains a cow by the neck.
noun:  The part of a lute-type string instrument, such as a guitar, that holds the tuning pegs or tensioning screws of the strings.
noun:  (rail transport) A transverse structural member at the extreme end of a rail vehicle's underframe, also used on some bogies.

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