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Meanings of snaffle in English

Portuguese
arrebatar
Catalan
agafar
Spanish
arrebatar

Get hold of or seize quickly and easily.

        arrebatar
        Catalan
        filet

        A simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb.

              filet
              Usage of snaffle in English
              1
              She made a run, but was checked by degrees with the snaffle.
              A Perilous Secret
              2
              Some fillies you can drive with a snaffle, others need the curb.
              Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
              3
              There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle.
              Black Beauty
              4
              The buggy horse was a sedate animal which I rode with a snaffle.
              Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
              5
              That heavy English snaffle is the best thing I know of.
              The Man on the Box
              6
              Give him lots of room, and he'll go in the snaffle.
              Phineas Finn / The Irish Member
              7
              In faith, sir boy, I have a snaffle for such a headstrong colt.
              Rosalynde / or, Euphues' Golden Legacy
              8
              Hoarders snaffle, store and smother their homes with the significant and the sentimental.
              The Irish Times
              9
              By a corncob moon they snaffle, silvery-hulled backs adrift & dolphin-arched in the mire.
              Unmanned
              10
              Jihad-green banner-holy war-all the East and Northern Africa alight while the French snaffle Syria.
              Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
              11
              Their bridle has but a simple snaffle-bit, and no martingale.
              The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
              12
              The curb and snaffle steel bits are used, and attached to a single head-stall.
              The Prairie Traveler: A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions
              13
              If he had either, he would soon need the snaffle to hold him back.
              The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and S...
              14
              I had only a light snaffle on him, while his mouth was like iron.
              Five Years in New Zealand / 1859 to 1864
              15
              The only thing he ever collected was snaffle bits.
              The new yorker
              16
              Like a horse restless under the snaffle, the man shook his head, but went on.
              The Mississippi Bubble / How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and S...
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