Definition of "front-stall" [front-stall]

• Medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "The reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was a steel plate, with apertures for the eyes and nostrils, having in the midst a short, sharp pike, projecting from the forehead of the horse like the horn of the fabulous unicorn."
• "Then there was a steel axe, or hammer, called a mace-of-arms, and which hung to the saddle-bow; the reins were secured by chain-work, and the front-stall of the bridle was"