ring-bit

“Lijám shadíd:” the ring-bit of the Arabs is perhaps the severest form known: it is required by the Eastern practice of pulling up the horse when going at full speed and it is too well known to require description.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

But Slade held him up with an iron grip on the jaw-breaking Spanish ring-bit.

Bloom of Cactus Robert Ames Bennet 1912

Arabic ring-bit and the heavy Mandenga demi-pique.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855

[FN#107] Arab "Lijám shadíd:" the ring-bit of the Arabs is perhaps the severest form known: it is required by the Eastern practice of pulling up the horse when going at full speed and it is too well known to require description.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855