Headrick
Proper noun
Meaning
A surname from Old English.
A town in Jackson County, Oklahoma, United States.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Headrick, (2000), p. 168) Along with growth in numbers, dictionaries and encyclopedias also grew in length, often having multiple print runs that sometimes included in supplemented editions.
Headrick, (2000), p. 144. The works were part of an Enlightenment movement to systematize knowledge and provide education to a wider audience than the elite.
Headrick patented the new design, highlighting the new raised ridges (the "Rings of Headrick") that stabilized flight and marketed and pushed the Professional Model Frisbee and "Frisbee" as a sport.
Headrick founded the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) and Recreational Disc Golf Association (RDGA) for competitive and family-oriented play, respectively, and worked on standardizing the rules and the equipment for the growing sport.
Headrick later helped to develop the sport of disc golf by inventing standardized targets called "pole holes", citation citation that was first played with Frisbees and later with more aerodynamic beveled rim discs.
In 1976, the game of disc golf was standardized with targets called "pole holes" invented and developed by Wham-O 's Ed Headrick.