headstick
nounEtymology From head + stick.
1
A stick-like device strapped to a paralysed person's head to allow them to perform activities such as typing on a keyboard.
2
Media, Printing, Publishing Historical A straight piece of furniture placed at the head of a form, between the chase and the type.
- The sidesticks should be of the full length of the page, and abut against the headsticks on the outside of the form .1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:
- Coordinate terms
- mouthstick