headstall

English

Etymology

From head +‎ stall.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɛdstɔːl/

Noun

headstall (plural headstalls)

1. The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements. [from 14th c.]
   • 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]:

     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, “Book V, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […] .

   • 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden‎, Penguin, published 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, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section XIX:

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

2. (obsolete) A phorbeia. [18th–19th c.]

Synonyms

• headpiece
• headcollar

Translations

part of the bridle that fits over the horse's head

Arabic: عِذَار m (ʕiḏār) Avar: чангит (čangit) Azerbaijani: noxta, ovsar Bashkir: нуҡта (nuqta) Bulgarian: оглавник (bg) m (oglavnik) Buryat: ногто (nogto) Chechen: жулар (žular) Chuvash: нӑхта (năhta) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: please add this translation if you can Finnish: niskahihna, päitset (fi) French: têtière (fr) f Galician: trenla (gl) f, xácoma f, ronzal m, ramal m, cabresto m German: Stallhalfter f, Halfter (de) f Greek: καπίστρι (el) n (kapístri) Ancient: φορβειά f (phorbeiá) Hungarian: tarkószíj Ingush: журал (žural) Irish: éadanán m Kalmyk: ногт (nogt) Karakalpak: noqta Kazakh: ноқта (noqta) Khakas: нохта (noxta), нотха (notxa) (Sagai) Kumyk: нокъта (noqta) Kyrgyz: нокто (nokto) Latin: capistrum n Macedonian: огламник m (oglamnik), оглав m (oglav) Moksha: нокта (nokta) Mongolian: ногт (mn) (nogt) Nogai: нокта (nokta) Ottoman Turkish: افسار (efsar) Shor: нотқа Slovak: please add this translation if you can Southern Altai: нокто (nokto), ноқто (Teleut) Spanish: cabestro (es) m Tajik: нухта (nuxta), афсор (afsor) Tatar: нукта (tt) (nuqta) Tofa: ноқта Turkish: yular (tr), dizgin (tr) Turkmen: nogta, owsar Tuvan: чулар (çular), нокта (nokta) (Tsengel) Udmurt: нюкто (ńukto) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Uyghur: نوختا (noxta) Uzbek: noʻxta (uz) Welsh: penwar m, penffrwyn m Yakut: сулар (sular)

References

• Baranowski, Zdzislaw, "The International Horseman's Dictionary", Pitman Publishing, New York, 1955
• Stratton, Charles, "The International Horseman's Dictionary", Hamlyn Publishing, Melbourne, 1975
• Summerhayes, R.S., "Encyclopedia for Horsemen", Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York, 1966