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Definition of Snaffle bit
1. Noun. A simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snaffle Bit
Literary usage of Snaffle bit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1901)
"The ordinary single riding-bridle, with a snaffle-bit, is shown in fig. 1. ...
There are several forms of the snaffle-bit. The common riding form (fig. ..."
2. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"Price'« bridle-bit, March 26, 1867, combines the snaffle-bit with a lever-bar,
... Snaffle-bit. See SNAFFLE. Snag-boat. A steamboat with hoisting apparatus, ..."
3. The Bridle Bits: A Treatise on Practical Horsemanship by Jenyns C. Battersby (1886)
"THE DOUBLE-JOINTED snaffle bit. The double-jointed snaffle bit for hard pullers
would be a safe bit to use, but what effect it would have could not be known ..."
4. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1854)
"A short elastic connecting piece, or false rein, is attached at one end to the
main rein, and at the other to the ring of the snaffle-bit. ..."
5. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1854)
"A short elastic connecting piece, or false rein, is attached at one end to the
main rein, and at the other to the ring of the snaffle-bit. ..."
6. Modern Horsemanship: Three Schools of Riding : an Original Method of by Edward Lowell Anderson (1886)
"IN THE snaffle bit. THE training given to the horse in the snaffle bit is of the
highest importance, and the grace and lightness with which the horse will ..."
7. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"The ordinary single riding-bridle, with a snaffle-bit, is shown in fig. 1. ...
There are several forms of the snaffle-bit. The common riding form (fig. ..."
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