headstall
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈhɛdstɔːl/
headstall (plural headstalls)
- The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements. [from 14th c.]
- circa 1593 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,
- Why, Petruchio is coming […] his horse hipp’d […] with a half-cheek’d bit, and a head-stall of sheep’s leather which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.3:
- Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].
- 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden (novel), Penguin, 2003, Chapter 15, Part 4, p. 172,
- He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.
- 1989, Keith Bosley, translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, XIX:
- Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall transterm päitset of iron […].
- circa 1593 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act III, Scene 2,
- (obsolete) A phorbeia. [18th-19th c.]
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