Word Meanings - HEADSTALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HEADSTALL)

• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HALTERES
  Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• HALTER-SACK
  A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. Beau. & Fl.
• BRIDLE IRON
  A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger.
• BRIDLER
  One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.
• HALTER
  One who halts or limps
• BRIDLE
  The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See
• WAG-HALTER
  One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged. I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.
• LATIGO HALTER
  A kind of halter usually made of raw hide.
• UNBRIDLE
  To free from the bridle; to set loose.
• PSEUDOHALTER
  One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects . They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, of Diptera.
• UNBRIDLED
  Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton.