rearing bit
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
rearing bit (plural rearing bits)
- A bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting the head when rearing.
- 1857, Harry Hieover, Precept and Practice:
- [if the horse] tosses up his head so violently or pertinaciously as to become unbearable , ride him a few times in a rearing bit
References[edit]
- “rear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.