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headspring

[ hed-spring ]

noun

  1. the fountainhead or source of a stream.
  2. the source of anything.
  3. an acrobatic feat similar to a handspring, except that the head as well as the hands touch the surface before the spring back to a standing position.


headspring

/ ˈhɛdˌsprɪŋ /

noun

  1. a spring that is the source of a stream
  2. a spring using the head as a lever from a position lying on the ground
  3. rare.
    a source
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of headspring1

First recorded in 1350–1400, headspring is from the Middle English word hedspring. See head, spring
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Example Sentences

The ultra-elevated public awareness was the headspring from which all of golf’s blessings flowed — more fans, more golfers, more courses, more equipment sales.

It was in those times surrounded by a moat, fed by the headspring of the Wandle; but the moat is gone, and the first few yards of the Wandle are nowadays made to flow underground.

Now, the divine recognition of believers' children, as standing in a special covenanted relation with God, is the headspring of infant dedication by the use of a rite.

Which of them that you are the only “headspring of all laws”? 

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