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Headstall

Definition: Headstall

Headstall

Noun

1. The band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "headstall" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Synonym: Headstall

Synonym: headpiece (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Headstall

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Prison

Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Headstall

English words defined with "headstall": bridleNoseband. (references)
Etymologies containing "headstall": hackamore. (references)

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Usage Frequency: Headstall

"Headstall" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Headstall" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%5157,705

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Headstall

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

headstall

11

headstall rawhide

2

ferrule headstall

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Headstall

Language Translations for "headstall"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kapistër (bridle, halter, rein, reins, snaffle). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

оглавник (halter, headgear). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(ornaments on headstall of horse, refine). (various references)

   

Czech

  

ohlávka (halter, snaffle). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

riimu (halter), päitset (halter). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

χαλινόσ (bridle, curb). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

面繋 (headgear). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おもがい (headgear). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eadstallhay

   

Russian 

  

оголовье уздечки (headgear, headpiece). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

oglavlje (pommel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

yular (bridle, halter, headgear), dizgin (bit, bridle, headgear, rein). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Headstall

Derivations

Words beginning with "headstall": headstalls. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Headstall

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-l-s-t"

-2 letters: altheas, daleths, lethals, stalled.

-3 letters: alated, alates, althea, daleth, dalles, deaths, deltas, desalt, halest, halted, haslet, hasted, ladles, lashed, lasted, lathed, lathes, lethal, sallet, salted, shaled, shelta, slated, staled, stella.

-4 letters: aahed, ahead, alate, ashed, atlas, dahls, dales, dates, deals, dealt, deash, death, dells, delta, delts, dhals, hadal, hades, hadst, haets, haled, hales, halls, halts, haste, hated, hates, heads, heals, heats, hells, lades, ladle, lased, lated, lathe, laths, leads, leash, least, sadhe, salad, salal, sated, selah, setal, shade, shale, shall, shalt, sheal, shell, slate, stade, stale, stall, stead, steal, stela, taels, talas, tales, teals, tells, tesla, tsade.

-5 letters: aahs, aals, alae, alas, ales, alls, alts, asea, ates, dahl, dahs, dale, dals, dash, data, date, deal, dell, dels, delt, dhal, east, eath, eats, edhs, elds, ells, etas, eths, hade, haed, haes, haet, hale, hall, halt, hast, hate, hats, head, heal, heat, held, hell, hest, hets, lade, lads, lase, lash, last, late, lath, lats, lead, leal, leas, lest, lets, sade, sale, sall, salt, sate, seal, seat, sell, seta, shad, shat, shea, shed, slat, sled, tads, tael, tala, tale, tall, teal, teas, teds, tela, tell, tels, thae.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-h-l-l-s-t"
 

+1 letter: headstalls.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Headstall


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 65 61 64 73 74 61 6C 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    .    .-    -..    ...    -    .-    .-..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01100101 01100001 01100100 01110011 01110100 01100001 01101100 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#101 &#97 &#100 &#115 &#116 &#97 &#108 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0065 0061 0064 0073 0074 0061 006C 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

427167708586677878

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Derivations
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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