table head
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.92 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One of the short ends of a rectangular table, considered to be the most prominent place and often reserved for the host(s).
Dated
Example Sentences
- "He that eates without labour (set him at the table head) he hes no honestie."
- "Now at the Table-Head she sits, / Presented with the nicest Bits: She look’d on Partridges with Scorn, / Except they tasted of the Corn:"
- "And when he came into the hall, Polydectes sat at the table-head, and all his nobles and landowners on either side, each according to his rank, feasting on the fish and the goat’s-flesh, and drinking the blood-red wine."
- "Mrs. Bellairs began to choke, sitting grotesquely at the table-head; it was as if she had swallowed a fish-bone at a select dinner-party."
- "A second bell interrupted the meal, and a prefect summoned the table-head to the prefects' table."
- "During dinner that first evening at Bingham Academy, I sat family-style with kids I didn’t know, all of them different ages. The oldest, a tight-faced teenage girl, announced that she was going to be our table head. She told me I was at the wrong chair."