| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Head of Cattle | Literature | 1: Cattle are counted by the head; manufacturing labourers by hands, as "How many hands do you employ?" horses by the nose (See Nose); guests at dinner by the cover, as "Covers for ten," etc. (See Numbers, Hand.) 2: In contracting for meals the contractor takes the job at so much "a head" - i.e. for each person. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | |
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