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

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “cabresto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

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• IPA^(key): /kɐˈbɾeʃ.tu/

cabresto (feminine cabresta, masculine plural cabrestos, feminine plural cabrestas)

1. (derogatory) idiot, fool, moron

cabresto m (plural cabrestos)

1. halter (animal’s headgear)
2. weed (unwanted plant)

   Synonym: çaramago

• Moisés, Pires (2004) “cabresto”, in Pequeno vocabulário Mirandês-Português [Small Mirandese-Portuguese Vocabulary], 2nd edition, Miranda do Douro: Câmara Municipal de Miranda do Douro, published 2019, →ISBN, page 149.
• Ferreira, Amadeu, Ferreira, José Pedro Cardona (2003–2022) “cabresto”, in Dicionário de Mirandês-Português [Mirandese-Portuguese Dictionary].

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