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cavessons

cavessons is the plural 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...

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Questions about cavessons

What is cavessons the plural of?
Cavessons is the plural of cavesson.

Words near cavessons in the dictionary

  1. cavescape
  2. Caveside
  3. caveson
  4. cavesons
  5. cavesson
  6. cavessons
  7. Cavett
  8. cavetti
  9. cavetto
  10. cavettos
  11. Cavetts

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