morailles
French
Etymology
From Old Occitan moralha, from Vulgar Latin *murrum (“muzzle, snout”), the like source as in morion (“a kind of helmet with no visor”), moraine (“amassment of rocks on a glacier”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɔ.ʁaj/
Noun
morailles f pl (plural only)
- (farriery) barnacle, twitch, a kind of pincers or vise to fix the mouth of a horse to yield the opportunity of surgery
Derived terms
- morailler (“to apply the twitch to”)
Further reading
- “morailles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.