| 单词 | flying trench |
| 释义 | > as lemmasflying trench a. In a horse's bridle: a kind of snaffle bit, esp. as part of a double bridle. Also (more fully flying trench): a snaffle bit whose cheek pieces are not rigid. Cf. trenchefil n. 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of headstallc1330 trench1480 stalk1497 musrol1551 head-strain?1561 water-chain?1561 throat band1585 cavesson1598 mullen1598 nose bit?a1600 front-stall1601 ampyx1607 chain1607 fillet1607 cheek-band1611 cheekpiece1611 noseband1611 throat thong1611 headpiece1678 throatlatch1693 headband1704 trenchefil1730 bridoon1744 banquet1753 head1756 cheek1795 throat strap1803 frontlet1805 throat-lash1805 cheekstrap1834 brow-band1844 nosepiece1865 shank1879 1480 Higden's Discripcion Brit. (Caxton) xxvii In stede of bittes with trenches & of badles of reest, they vse bridles that lette not their horse to ete their mete. 1593 G. Markham Disc. Horsmanshippe ii. sig. E4v Take a plaine smooth cannon Byt, with a flying trenche, whose cheekes may bee of the same length. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 320 The Indians wer wont to vse no bridles..but only..putting a long round trench through his [sc. the horse's] mouth, to the edge whereof they fasten the raines, wherewithall they guide the beast. 1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xx. 345 Tye it to his Snaffle, Trench, or Bit. 1668 Markham's Way to get Wealth (new ed.) i. ii. 16 Now and then drawing the trench to and fro in his Mouth. 1729 R. Bradley Gentleman & Farmer's Guide iv. 308 One may conceive the Advantage of this flying Trench. But this Trench, though it is a fine Corrector, yet by no means must be used constantly. 1763 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. 382/2 Bridle, in the manege, a contrivance made of..the trench; the cavesan; the martingal; and the chaff-halter. 1852 J. L. Blake Family-text Bk. for Country (1857) 55 The reins; the nose band, buckled under the cheeks; the trench, the cavesson, the martingal, and the chaff halter. 1981 E. H. Edwards Country Life Bk. Saddlery & Equipm. i. 33/3 Later, the ‘false rein’ would be fitted into the ‘flying trench’, or to the top ring of the curb. < as lemmas |
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