Bozal

Meanings

1. Alternative letter-case form of bozal.

1. Alternative letter-case form of bozal.

1. A (black) slave recently brought to a (European, especially Spanish) colony from Africa.
2. Alternative form of bosal (“noseband on a horse”).

1. Of a slave, recently brought to a colony from Africa.

Etymology

From Spanish bozal (“recently-imported slave; noseband”). Doublet of bossale and bosal.