Definition of Cabresta

1. cabestro [n -S] - See also: cabestro

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cabresta

cabocs
cabombas
caboodle
caboodles
caboose
cabooses
caboshed
cabotage
cabotages
cabotinage
cabrales
cabre
cabree
cabrees
cabrerite
cabresta (current term)
cabrestas
cabresto
cabrestos
cabretta
cabrettas
cabrie
cabries
cabriite
cabrilla
cabrillas
cabriole
cabrioles
cabriolet
cabriolets

Literary usage of Cabresta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1846)
"This task was scarce accomplished, when he felt himself violently seized from behind, his arms pinioned, his mouth filled with the end of a hair cabresta, ..."

2. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"... was destroyed by the greater uproar of the wind, but unfortunately I ran up against one of the vigilantes who was holding his horse by the cabresta. ..."

3. Indianstudien in Zentralbrasilien: Erlebnisse und ethnologische Ergebnisse by Max Schmidt (1905)
"Besonders charakteristisch ist die Mähne und der Schwanz des zweiten dieser Pferde. Ausserdem ist jedes derselben mit >. cabresta« ..."

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