Headstall vs Bride - What's the difference?
headstall | bride |
The part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.3:
*:Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].
*1989 , (Keith Bosley), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala , XIX:
*:Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall of iron […].
A woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.
* Bible, (w) xxi. 9
* (1709-1773)
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=6, title= An object ardently loved.
(obsolete) To make a bride of.
As nouns the difference between headstall and bride
is that headstall is the part of a bridle that fits over a horse's head and supports other elements while bride is a woman who is going to marry or who has just been married.As a verb bride is
to make a bride of.headstall
English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* headpiece * headcollarReferences
Baranowski, Zdzislaw, "The International Horseman's Dictionary", Pitman Publishing, New York, 1955 Stratton, Charles, "The International Horseman's Dictionary", Hamlyn Publishing, Melbourne, 1975 Summerhayes, R.S., "Encyclopedia for Horsemen", Frederick Warne & Co., London and New York, 1966bride
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I will show thee the bride , the Lamb's wife.
- Has by his own experience tried / How much the wife is dearer than the bride .
A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.}}
