canon bit
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun[edit]
canon bit (plural canon bits)
- (obsolete, rare) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] A goodly person, and could menage faire
His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit
- 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book:
- blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit
References[edit]
- “canon bit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.