bosal

English

Etymology

From Spanish bosal, variant of bozal (“noseband; slave”). (The sense "noseband" is specifically via Mexican Spanish and was originally found in the Southwestern US.) Doublet of bozal and bossale.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /boʊˈsæl/

Noun

bosal (plural bosals)

1. A type of noseband used on a horse.
2. (uncommon) Alternative form of bozal or bossale (slave born in Africa and recently brought to a colony).
   • 2009, Bernard Bailyn, Patricia L Denault, Soundings in Atlantic History, page 108:

     At about the same time Christian Georg Andreas Oldendorp, a Moravian missionary in the Danish West Indies, recorded that some Kongos on the island performed "a certain type of baptism on the bosals [recently arrived slaves] who desire it."

Anagrams

• Albos, Boals, Sabol, Sobal, albos, bolas, bolsa

Spanish

Noun

bosal m (plural bosales)

1. Alternative form of bozal (“noseband, bosal”)