单词 | headstall |
释义 | headstalln.1 1. The part of a bridle or halter that fits over or round the head of a horse or draught animal.In quot. 1464 perhaps: a fastening used to hold a tabor or small drum in position while on horseback. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 c1330 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 519 (MED) In 4 capistris cum Hedstall de rubeo..pro equis carecte Prioris. 1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 264 (MED) Item, for a hedstalle for the taberet, iiij d. 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 153 x hedstalles and x broderayns for x hobyes and palfreys. 1553 in A. J. Kempe Losely MSS (1836) 139 7 great horses, with horse cloths, sursyngles, bytts, hed stalls, &c. 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A2 A little white leather headstal and raines. 1608 G. Chapman Conspiracie Duke of Byron v. sig. G3v A lusty courser,..(his headstall broken) Hee runnes his prison. 1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 399 The reines & headstall crimson silk. 1712 M. Henry Expos. Prophetical Bks. Old Test. (Hosea xi. 6) sig. Iiiiiv Probably in those times the Yoke on the Neck of the Oxen was fastened with some Bridle or Head-stall over the Jaws. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Halter-Strap or String, a cord, or long strap of leather, made fast to the head-stall, and to the manger, to tye the horse. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour i. vi. 25 The collar-shanks were neatly coiled under the headstalls. 1886 W. D. Howells Indian Summer ii. 22 His broken-kneed, tremulous little horse gay in brass-mounted harness, and with a stiff turkey feather stuck upright at one ear in his head-stall. 1901 F. Norris Octopus i. vi. 225 I'll have the law on that thief if it breaks me—and a sixty-dollar saddle 'n' headstall gone with her. 1985 G. Ehrlich Solace Open Spaces 64 As soon as you jump off he'll rub the headstall over his ears. 2001 Dressage June 37/1 The Shires Spyder headcollar..is designed to slip straight over the ears or a bridle without the necessity to undo the headstall or guide the nose through. ΚΠ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Head-Stall, among antient musicians. See Phorbæa. 1819 Encycl. Londinensis XVI. 365/1 The muzzles and bloated cheeks in representations..prove that quantity of sound was the principal object of the ancients. Hence the necessity of the capistrum, or head-stall. 1876 J. Stainer & W. A. Barrett Dict. Musical Terms 226/2 Head-stall, a head-band or Capistrum, q.v. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † headstalln.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently: a choir stall set with its back against the chancel screen, i.e. facing east. ΚΠ c1515 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 483 Karving and ioynyng for x hedstalles with their tabernacles of them. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † headstallv. Obsolete. rare. transitive. To put a headstall on (an animal). ΚΠ 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxiii. 129 You must first beate him from these faults, before you go about to headstal him [Fr. l'accoustumer à porter testiere]. 1818 ‘W. H. Scott’ Sportsman's Cal. 132 Foals are weaned at the end of the grass season, and should be handled and headstalled as soon as possible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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