cabresto

cabresto (plural cabrestos)

1. A halter (headpiece for animal).
   • 1851, Sporting Magazine, volume 18, page 274:

     It is said that if a cabresto is laid round the sleeping traveller , the snake will not get within it.

Attested since the 13th century; inherited from Latin capistrum.

cabresto m (plural cabrestos)

1. halter (Alternative form of cabestro)

   Synonyms: trela, xácoma

• “cabresto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.

cabresto

1. idiot, fool, moron[1]

From Old Galician-Portuguese cabresto, inherited from Latin capistrum. Doublet of the borrowing capistro.

• Hyphenation: ca‧bres‧to

cabresto m (plural cabrestos)

1. halter (animal’s headgear)

• encabrestar