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^[1], 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