headstall

Definitions

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

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall [translating päitset] of iron⟳ […].”

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