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cabrestos

cabrestos is the plural of cabresto.

Meaning of cabresto

Noun

cabresto (plural cabrestos)

  1. A halter (headpiece for animal).
    • It is said that if a cabresto is laid round the sleeping traveller , the snake will not get within it.1851, Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 274

Questions about cabrestos

What is cabrestos the plural of?
Cabrestos is the plural of cabresto.

Words near cabrestos in the dictionary

  1. Cabrejas
  2. Cabrera
  3. cabrerite
  4. cabres
  5. cabresto
  6. cabrestos
  7. cabretta
  8. cabrettas
  9. cabreuva
  10. cabreuvas
  11. cabrewing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cabrestos (page history and authors); cabresto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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