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

• 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