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Definition of Pelham
1. Noun. A bit with a bar mouthpiece that is designed to combine a curb and snaffle.
Definition of Pelham
1. Noun. a type of bit used on the bridle of a horse, consisting of a mouthpiece, a shank, and two rings on either side ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pelham
1. a type of horse's bit [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelham
Literary usage of Pelham
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: From by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1827)
"Capita. said Mary Pel/tain, the same might be paid to the children or child of
the said Mary Pelham, equally to be divided between them, if more than one, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"His grandfather, Henry Pelham, clerk of the Pells, who died in 1721, was a younger
brother of the first Baron Pelham of Laughton. The father, after having ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"1700), daughter of Gilbert Holies, 3rd earl of Clare, and bister of John Holies,
duke of Newcastle, he had five daughters, and two sons—Thomas Pelham ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1879)
"Cork, Ireland, to my said son Henry and his heirs male, with remainder to Edward
Pelham, remainder to my said son Waldegrave, remainder to my right heirs—My ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"definitely refused this request, Newcastle, Pelham and the other Ministers took the
... From 1746 to 1754 the land had rest from party bickerings; Pelham, ..."
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