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Meanings of snaffle bit in English

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

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Examples for "snaffle"
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
Usage of snaffle bit in English
1
The only thing he ever collected was snaffle bits.
The new yorker
2
"Speaking of checks," said Ned Rector after an interval of silence, "did you bring along that snaffle bit, Tad?"
The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon; Or, The Mystery of Brig...
Translations for snaffle bit
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