running head

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run′ning head′, [Print.]

1. Printing a descriptive word, phrase, title, or the like, usually repeated at the top of each page of a book, periodical, etc. Also called running title. 

• 1830–40

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running head, running title noun

1. a heading printed at the top of every page or every other page of a book