snaffle
IPA: snˈæfʌɫ
noun
- A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.
- (figuratively) Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.
verb
- (transitive) To put a snaffle on, or control with a snaffle.
- (transitive) To clutch by the bridle.
- (transitive, informal) To grab or seize; to snap up.
- (transitive, informal) To purloin, or obtain by devious means.
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Examples of "snaffle" in Sentences
- Snaffle or direct pressure bits.
- It is a snaffle plus a mouth ring.
- Difference between a snaffle and a curb.
- The verb snaffle is a British colloquialism.
- But it made me thinking about the snaffle bit.
- Draw reins are commonly used, on the snaffle ring.
- Ordinary snaffle with double jointed mouthpiece. 3.
- Ordinary snaffle with single jointed mouthpiece. 2.
- This is the most common mouthpiece found on a snaffle.
- A longeing cavesson may be used with a snaffle bridle.
- Their jaws, it turns out, were simply too weak to snaffle a sheep.
- If the snaffle is to be the predominant bit, its reins should be on the outside, and the curb-reins slack.
- Bits that act with direct pressure on the tongue and lips of the bit are in the general category of snaffle bits.
- For instance, on the Thursday night I visited, you could snaffle a plate of gussied-up sausage and mash for £8.95.
- Dorothy – what lovely advice from your advisor and I think I will have to snaffle that myself to pass on to the students!
- Fig. 12 for holding the horse to a hunting or racing gallop on a snaffle is the same as Fig. 9, but with the fists closed.
- The top rein ring is located next to the mouthpiece, as in a snaffle, and the rein that attaches to it is thus called the snaffle rein.
- He muttered something that a snaffle was the safest bit a sinner could place faith in -- assumed the mantle of prophecy -- foretold, as it would appear, troublous times to be in rapid advent -- and inculcated that faith should be placed in heaven, and powder kept very dry.
- In Ireland, where the large majority of our hunters come from, the snaffle is the bit used in breaking and hunting, as it is in steeple-chasing; and although our Irish neighbours find the curb has its advantages, we must admit that they keep it in its proper place and do not allow it to usurp the snaffle when riding over fences.
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