Dictionary

headstall en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɛdstɔːl/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From head + stall.

Meanings

1. The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements.
   • Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall. 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Penguin, published 2003, Chapter 15, Part 4, p. 172:
   • Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall [translating päitset] of iron […]. 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XIX:
   • 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 […] c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
2. (obsolete) A phorbeia.

Forms

Synonyms

headpiece · headcollar

Translations (59)

ky нокто (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · cs ohlávka (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · gl cabresto (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · cv нӑхта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · xal ногт (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · cy penwar (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · el καπίστρι (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · gl ronzal (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kaa noqta (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · es cabestro (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · cjs нотқа (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · nog нокта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · inh журал (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · av чангит (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tk nogta (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ba нуҡта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ug نوختا (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · bg оглавник (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tg афсор (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tr dizgin (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · sah сулар (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · gl trenla (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · mdf нокта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · alt ноқто (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · de Halfter (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · gl xácoma (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · fi päitset (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · mn ногт (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kk ноқта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · pl kantar (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · gl ramal (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · cy penffrwyn (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · de Stallhalfter (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tr yular (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kjh нотха (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ar عِذَار (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ota افسار (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · az noxta (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · mk оглав (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · la capistrum (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ce жулар (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · az ovsar (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · alt нокто (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · grc φορβειά (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kim ноқта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · ga éadanán (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · uz noʻxta (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tk owsar (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · bua ногто (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kjh нохта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · udm нюкто (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tt нукта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · hu tarkószíj (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · fr têtière (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tyv чулар (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tyv нокта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · kum нокъта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · mk огламник (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head) · tg нухта (part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head)