frontstall

Questions about frontstall

What does frontstall mean?

frontstall means "medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head".

How many syllables are in frontstall?

frontstall has 2 syllables and divides as front-stall under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for frontstall?

Close synonyms include chanfron, chamfron, testiere, front-stall. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is frontstall a common word?

frontstall is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.