like a whitehead

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1. alternativeAlternative form of like whiteheads.

   Holy Smokes! I was scairt. Then the train hit a curve so fast I had to fight like a whitehead to keep her from pitchin' me out.

   2015, B.A. Botkin, Alvin F. Harlow, A Treasury of Railroad Folklore

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   I told you a year ago that when the occasion required he ran at the enemy like a “Whitehead,” and I told you that like the rest of us, when occasion required, he ran the other way like a “Whitehead ;” but he was not like the King of France, who, with thirty thousand men marched up to the top of the hill, and then marched down again.

   1893, Roster and Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Encampment of the Department of Ohio, Grand Army of the Republic, pages 187–188