head collar
Britishnoun
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The camel has a head collar - but no bit.
From BBC
I grabbed a hold of Jack's head collar frantically.
From The Guardian
The thread in dies which take successive cuts to form a thread may be left full clear through the die, and will thus cut a full thread close up to the head collar or shoulder of the work.
From Project Gutenberg
He invariably kicked three times when he was first mounted—and never afterwards on that particular day; he hated motors moving or stationary; and he was an adept at slipping his head collar and getting loose.
From Project Gutenberg
In South Africa and the colonies horses are picketed by the method known as “ringing,” the head rope of one being fastened to the head collar of the next, and so on, till the head rope of the last is in its turn fastened to the head collar of the first, their heads forming a ring looking inwards.
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