单词 | ring bit |
释义 | > as lemmasring bit ring bit n. (a) a horse's bit having rings at the ends; (b) a horse's bit having a ring that can be put over its lower jaw. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 60 The other I call the ryng bytt, for it consisteth all of ringes, one smoothe, the other rough, and mingled with sundrie small players. 1727 R. Bradley Compl. Bk. Husband. xviii. 340 The melon bit, the peare bit, the ball or poppy bit, the ring bit, and many more that have been, and are now in use. 1853 Mech. Mag. 25 June 506/2 Plain ring-bits have been used before, but they have always been suspended by cheek-straps at the sides. 1894 Harper's Mag. Mar. 520/2 The Mexican ‘punchers’ all use the ‘ring bit’, and it is a fearful contrivance. 1913 W. C. Barnes Western Grazing Grounds 358 (caption) Spanish Ring Bit. 1932 W. E. D. Allen Hist. Georgian People p. xiii Early Iron Age horse-bit from Gori... (Cf. the almost identical Scythian ring-bit from Dévé-Huyuk.) 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) ii. 100 We're lookin at ridin some coldjawed son of a bitch broke with one of them damned mexican ringbits. < as lemmas |
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