HEADPIECE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does headpiece mean? 

• HEADPIECE (noun)
  The noun HEADPIECE has 2 senses:

1. the band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head

2. a protective helmet for the head

  Familiarity information: HEADPIECE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEADPIECE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The band that is the part of a bridle that fits around a horse's head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

headpiece; headstall

Hypernyms ("headpiece" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Holonyms ("headpiece" is a part of...):

bridle (headgear for a horse; includes a headstall and bit and reins to give the rider or driver control)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A protective helmet for the head

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("headpiece" is a kind of...):

helmet (a protective headgear made of hard material to resist blows)

 Context examples 

“Our time is not yet come, and we must lie here until evening. Throw off your jacks and headpieces, least their eyes catch the shine, and tether the horses among the rocks.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ah, he was the man to have a headpiece, was Flint!

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He is a decent, intelligent fellow, distinctly a good, reliable type of workman, and with a headpiece of his own.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The bow-man pulled back the bolt of the door, and thrust out the headpiece at the end of the bow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On one side of him sat old Johnston, who was busy in trimming the feathers of some arrows to his liking; and on the other Hordle John, who lay with his great limbs all asprawl, and his headpiece balanced upon his uplifted foot.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As the mist parted, and the sun broke through, it gleamed and shimmered with dazzling brightness upon the armor and headpieces of a vast body of horsemen who stretched across the barranca from one cliff to the other, and extended backwards until their rear guard were far out upon the plain beyond.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Aylward, with a fishing lass on either arm, was vowing constancy alternately to her on the right and her on the left, while big John towered in the rear with a little chubby maiden enthroned upon his great shoulder, her soft white arm curled round his shining headpiece.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)