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headstall

noun
/ˈhɛdstɔːl/UK

Etymology

From head + stall.

  1. derived from *stel-✻ — “to place, put, post, stand”
  2. inherited from *stallaz✻
  3. inherited from steall
  4. inherited from stall
  5. compounded as headstall — “head + stall”

Definitions

  1. The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements.

    • 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 […]
    • Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].
    • He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.

  2. A phorbeia.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA