headerman

noun

head·​er·​man

-mən,

-ˌman

plural headermen

1

: header sense 4b

2

: an operator of a machine for making steel bends, offsets, bolt blanks, bolt heads, and rivet heads

3

: one who forges hot or cold metal on a bulldozer

4

: a worker who rivets together the fitted-up metal plates of oil-storage tanks

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