Definitions

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  • noun a bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle

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Examples

  • PELHAM MANOR - Westchester County fire investigators and the Pelham Manor fire chief have ruled out Christmas decorations as the cause of a blaze that destroyed a large 2 1 / 2-story wood-frame home New Year's Eve, displacing a family of six.

    unknown title 2009

  • PELHAM MANOR - Westchester County fire investigators and the Pelham Manor fire chief have ruled out Christmas decorations as the cause of a blaze that destroyed a large 2 1 / 2-story wood-frame home New Year's Eve, displacing a family of six.

    unknown title 2009

  • Though, to be fair, Pelham is better than either of those two films.

    Alan reviews “The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3″ » Scene-Stealers 2009

  • The firm's initial $150 million equity investment allowed Fairway to open a new branch in Pelham Manor, N.Y., and ink leases for three upcoming locations.

    Fairway Market Is Poised for Growth Shelly Banjo 2010

  • DERRY, N.H. -- Trish Burnett was 6 years old and living in Pelham when her family received news that her father, Lt.Col. Sheldon Burnett, was missing in action in Vietnam after his helicopter was shot down over Laos in 1971.

    Burnett, Sheldon J. 1990

  • FOR eight years, Judith and Jonathan shared with another young couple a duplex in Pelham, a town that adjoins Amherst.

    House 1985

  • (Major Pelham is not more than twenty-two); General Jackson remarked, "With a Pelham upon either flank I could vanquish the world."

    The Battle of Fredericksburg 1863

  • Pelham is a classic that too few people acknowledge – a bonus is that Jerry Stiller (Frank Costanza) and George Costanza’s Mom are BOTH in it!

    Weekly Mishmash: December 7-13 : Scrubbles.net 2008

  • He chides Croker for interrupting the text with inane interpolations: "They remind us of nothing so much as of those profound and interesting annotations which are pencilled by sempstresses and apothecaries 'boys on the dog-eared margins of novels borrowed from circulating libraries-'How beautiful!’ — ‘cursed prosy' — 'I don't like Sir Reginald Malcolm at all.' — 'I think Pelham is a sad dandy.'"

    In Praise of Dispraise 1981

  • He chides Croker for interrupting the text with inane interpolations: "They remind us of nothing so much as of those profound and interesting annotations which are pencilled by sempstresses and apothecaries 'boys on the dog-eared margins of novels borrowed from circulating libraries-'How beautiful!’ — ‘cursed prosy' — 'I don't like Sir Reginald Malcolm at all.' — 'I think Pelham is a sad dandy.'"

    In Praise of Dispraise 1981

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