Headstall

Why, Petruchio is coming […] his horse hipp’d […] with a half-cheek’d bit, and a head-stall of sheep’s leather which, being restrained to keep him from stumbling, hath been often burst, and now repaired with knots […]

Another, that would seeme to have more wit, / Him by the bright embrodered hed-stall tooke […].

He turned back, slipped the bit in Dox’s mouth, and laced the big flop ears into the headstall.

Then the smith Ilmarinen / the everlasting craftsman / out of steel formed a bridle / forged a headstall [translating päitset] of iron […].