Other forms: mastheads
The masthead is the title block at the top of a newspaper's front page. Under the masthead, redesign the masthead, the paper's masthead.
In American usage it means something else — the box listing the staff and owners, which British papers call the imprint. A masthead is also literally the top of a ship's mast. Note the compound, mast plus head, which is where the newspaper sense came from.
1nounmastheadThe title block at the top of a newspaper.
“The newspaper's name is printed in bold black letters on the masthead.”
masthead is a page element.
Mast plus head, first the top of a ship's mast, then the title block that sits at the top of a page.
From mast + head.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA