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2. Headboard (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Historically, headboards served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed to create space from the wall (via thicker end pillars), they allowed falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed. [1]

3. Bracket (architecture) - Wikipedia

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   What makes a bracket a bracket is that it is intermediate between the two and fixes the one to the other. Brackets vary widely in shape, but a prototypical bracket is the L-shaped metal piece that attaches a shelf (the smaller component) to a wall (the larger component): its vertical arm is fixed to one (usually large) element, and its ...

4. Wedge base - Wikipedia

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   W2.1x9.5d base, a common 5-watt bulb in landscape lighting and some interior automotive applications such as the dome light. A wedge base is a type of electrical connector used as a fitting for small light bulbs.

5. Headboard (train) - Wikipedia

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   Headboards are also frequently used on heritage railway line services to denote special trains, the name of the railway, a locomotive's anniversary, or events. Common practice in the UK is to display the headboard on the front of a locomotive (temporarily attached, to denote the name of the train or other purpose), and to have the nameplate of ...