Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Specifically, a light bit for the riding-bridle, with long-horned and solid ring-checks, which are loose in the heads of the mouthpiece. The name was originally applied to a single-check riding-bridle; on the introduction of the double-cheek bridle it was retained for the bit.
- noun A plain slender jointed bit for a horse.
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Examples
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She wrote of women wearing “distressed leather or roughed-up shearling … jodhpurs and a blanket cape closed with a snaffle-bit buckle.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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She wrote of women wearing “distressed leather or roughed-up shearling … jodhpurs and a blanket cape closed with a snaffle-bit buckle.”
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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The snaffle-bit is universally used, even by the officers, although the average Russian troop-horse is noted for his hard mouth.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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Ruhmkorff coil, whose armature was connected with a snaffle-bit placed in the horse's mouth.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various
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Farrel saddled him and carefully fitted the bridle with the snaffle-bit.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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Money makes the mare go, and it makes her cut up, too, unless she's used to it and you drive her with a snaffle-bit.
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Even when a jackal, or it might have been a honey-badger, slipped across the road in front, a drifting shadow, the Turcoman only rattled the snaffle-bit in his teeth, cocked his ears, and then blew a breath of disdain from his big nostrils.
Caste William Alexander Fraser 1896
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He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope.
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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He did not know enough about horses to put a snaffle-bit in one's mouth, and yet he would draw the friskiest, most mettlesome animal in the corral, upon whose back he was scarcely more at home than he would be upon a slack rope.
Andersonville — Volume 2 John McElroy 1887
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"I would ride her with the lightest snaffle-bit that ever was made," protested Lord Mallow.
Vixen, Volume II. 1875
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