Halter vs Caparison - What's the difference?
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A bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them.
A rope with a noose, for hanging criminals; the gallows rope.
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To place a halter on.
The often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.
* 1861 , Charlotte Guest, translator, .
Gay or rich clothing.
* Smollett
To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings.
* 1593 , Shakespeare, Richard III , .
Halter is a related term of caparison.
As nouns the difference between halter and caparison
is that halter is a bitless headpiece of rope or straps, placed on the head of animals such as cattle or horses to lead or tie them or halter can be one who halts or limps; a cripple while caparison is the often ornamental coverings for an animal, especially a horse or an elephant.As verbs the difference between halter and caparison
is that halter is to place a halter on while caparison is to dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings.halter
English
(wikipedia halter)Etymology 1
From (etyl) halter, helter, helfter, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- And Crates said, that love was cured with hunger, if not by time; and in him that liked not these two meanes, by the halter .
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Synonyms
* headstall * headpiece * headcollar (British)Verb
- What do you mean, you didn't halter the horses when we stopped for the night?
Etymology 2
Anagrams
* * ----caparison
English
Noun
(en noun)- And the green of the caparison of the horse, and of his rider, was as green as the leaves of the fir-tree, and the yellow was as yellow as the blossom of the broom.
- My heart groans beneath the gay caparison .
Verb
(en verb)- Come, bustle, bustle; caparison my horse