headspring

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English head +‎ spring. === Noun === headspring (plural headsprings) A fountainhead; a source. (figurative) A basis or foundation. (gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet. A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward. === Verb === headspring (third-person singular simple present headsprings, present participle headspringing, simple past headsprang, past participle headsprung) (gymnastics) To perform a headspring. === Anagrams === ring-shaped, springhead