morailles
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French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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[edit]
Noun[edit]
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[edit]
- morailler (“to apply the twitch to”)
Further reading[edit]
- “morailles”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.