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caveson

caveson is the alternative form of cavesson.

Meaning of cavesson

Noun

cavesson (plural cavessons)

  1. A part of a horse's bridle that consists of a headstall with a noseband. When a martingale is used, it is attached to the horse's head at the cavesson.
    • I’ll be bound, Lady Ashton understands every machine for breaking in the human mind, and there are as many as there are cannon-bit, martingales, and cavessons for young colts.1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume III (The Bride of Lammermoor), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable...

Forms of caveson

pluralcavesons

Questions about caveson

What is caveson the alternative form of?
Caveson is the alternative form of cavesson.

Words near caveson in the dictionary

  1. caves in
  2. Caves of Adullam
  3. caves out
  4. cavescape
  5. Caveside
  6. caveson
  7. cavesons
  8. cavesson
  9. cavessons
  10. Cavett
  11. cavetti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caveson (page history and authors); cavesson (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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