From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Furnitureheadboardhead‧board /ˈhedbɔːd $ -bɔːrd/ noun [countable]DHFthe uprightboard at the end of a bed where your head isExamples from the Corpusheadboard• Or make one using a headboardkit from Cover Up and cover it with fabric.• A commemorative headboard will be carried featuring the Taunton 150 logo and the train leaves Bishops Lydeard at 19.15.• Strangely, one of the spars from the bed's headboard seemed to be missing.• Translation: Are there leakyfaucets, shakyheadboards, running toilets and creakyfloors?• Even the headboard, there in the middle.• I slid down in my bed, my hair fanning out over the headboard like a thick black fringe.• Mattie had a king-sized bed with a paddedbluevelvetheadboard.