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cavesson|ˈkævɪsən|
Forms: 6 cauetzan, 7 cavezan; cavechin; 7–9 caveson, 8 cavezon, (cavesion, 9 cavason), 7– cavesson.
[a. F. caveçon, ad. It. cavezzone, augmentative of cavezza halter (cf. Sp. cabezon shirt-collar). Ital. had another derivative form, cavezzana, whence the earlier Eng. form cavezan. Diez associates It. cavezza, OF. chevece, with Sp. cabeza, Pr. cabeissa head, repr. L. capitia, from capitium ‘head-covering’, later ‘the opening in a tunic for the head’.]
A kind of nose-band of iron, leather, or wood, ‘fixed to the nostrils of a horse, to curb or render him manageable through the pain it occasions’ (Stocqueler Mil. Encycl.).
1598Florio, Cauezzana, a cauetzan or headstraine. 1611Cotgr., Camorre, a sharpe and double-edged Cavesson of yron, for an vnruly horses nose. Ibid., Caveçon, a cauechin, or cauesson, for a horses nose. 1618M. Baret Horsemanship Cures 38 Extreame commanding bits and tormenting cauezans. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. Author 17 That Pegasus..which others rather chuse to ride rather in a Caveson. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. I. s.v. Colt, The Cavesion being placed upon the tender Gristle of his Nose. 1840Blain Encycl. Rur. Sports 287 The cavesson is the first active restraint applied to all saddle horses. 1863Gambler's Dream III. 201 No more chance with them than a colt in a cavason. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. i. viii. 451. |