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Definition of Snaffle
1. Verb. Get hold of or seize quickly and easily. "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale"
2. Noun. A simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb.
3. Verb. Fit or restrain with a snaffle. "Snaffle a horse"
Definition of Snaffle
1. n. A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.
2. v. t. To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
Definition of Snaffle
1. 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. Often used as a training bit. ¹
2. Verb. to put on, or control with, a snaffle ¹
3. Verb. to grab or seize; to snap up ¹
4. Verb. (informal) to purloin, or obtain by devious means ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snaffle
1. to obtain by devious means [v -FLED, -FLING, -FLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snaffle
Literary usage of Snaffle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Horse in the Stable and the Field: his Varieties, Management in Health by J. H. Walsh (1892)
"In defining the snaffle, it may be described as consisting of a ring on each side
the mouth to which the rein is attached, connected together by one or two ..."
2. The Horse, in the Stable and the Field: His Varieties, Management in Health by John Henry Walsh (1888)
"The plain snaffle. 2. The twisted snaffle. 3. The snaffle with double mouthpiece.
4. The chain snaffle. 5. The double-jointed snaffle. 6. ..."
3. Riding and Driving by Edward Lowell Anderson, Price Collier, T. Suffern Tailer (1905)
"With the snaffle the rider may raise or depress the forehand, freshen and relieve
the mouth of the horse occasionally from the restraint of the curb-bit, ..."
4. Riding: on the Flat and Across Country: A Guide to Practical Horsemanship by Matthew Horace Hayes (1882)
"Against this trick, twisted, double-mouthed snaffles, or a. snaffle with a curb
chain or twine twisted round it, may be used. We often find a tight noseband ..."
5. Riding by Robert Weir, J. Moray Brown (1891)
"The reins should be sufficiently short to feel the horse's mouth, and he should
be kept up to his work, so as not to allow him to lean on the snaffle. ..."
6. Equitation by Henry L. de Bussigny (1922)
"The trainer, holding as before the two snaffle reins, makes very light ...
When the lower jaw is depressed squarely at the effect of the snaffle, ..."
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