Header
Header turns up in 2 fields: fasteners, building. Here is what it means to the people in each one.
Header in fasteners
The machine that cold heads fasteners, feeding wire, cutting blanks and striking them in a series of dies.
A mechanical press built for heading. A one-die, two-blow header handles simple heads, while multi-station formers, also called bolt makers, transfer the blank through several dies to extrude, upset, trim and pierce more complex shapes. Header operators set tooling, wire feed and cutoff length, and their adjustments decide head fill, bursts and dimensions.
"Header three is blowing out heads again, check the cutoff length and the punch before you run another coil."
Header in building
A brick laid flat with its shortest end exposed on the face of a wall.
A masonry unit laid flat across a wall so that its shortest end faces outward. In traditional solid brickwork, headers tie two separate wythes together to create a structurally sound, multi-layer wall. In wood framing, the same word describes a horizontal structural beam spanning an opening like a door or window.
"Run three stretching courses first, then follow up with a row of headers to tie the outer skin to the backup block."