| 单词 | bit-mouth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbit-mouth Thesaurus » Categories » bit-mouth n. (see sense 8a). bit-mouth a. The mouthpiece of a horse's bridle, consisting of the metal bit-mouth, and adjacent parts, to which the reins are attached. (It is not clear whether the word in this sense signifies that which the horse bites, or that which bites or grips the horse's mouth. Old English had bitol bridle, frænum; Old Norse bitull, bitill bit of a bridle; the Danish is bid, Swedish bett, Dutch gebit, German gebisz.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > bit kevela1300 barnaclea1382 bitc1385 molanc1400 bridle bit1438 snafflea1533 titup1537 bastonet?1561 cannon?1561 scatch1565 cannon bit1574 snaffle-bit1576 port mouth1589 watering snaffle1593 bell-bit1607 campanel1607 olive1607 pear-bit1607 olive-bit1611 port bit1662 neck-snaffle1686 curb-bit1688 masticador1717 Pelham1742 bridoon1744 slabbering-bit1753 hard and sharp1787 Weymouth1792 bridoon-bit1795 mameluke bit1826 Chiffney-bit1834 training bit1840 ring snaffle1850 gag-snaffle1856 segundo1860 half-moon bit1875 stiff-bit1875 twisted mouth1875 thorn-bit1886 Scamperdale1934 bit-mouth- c1385 Chaucer Legend Good Women 1208 The fomy brydil with the bit [v.r. bitte] of gold. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2310 With þe barbe of þe bitte bi þe bare nek. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 37 Bytt of a brydylle, lupatum. 1623 Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII v. iii. 57 Stop their mouthes with stubborn Bits & spurre 'em. View more context for this quotation 1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Bitt [with Horsemen], in general signifies the whole machine of a bridle, as the bit-mouth, the branches, the curb, the sevil holes, the tranchefil, and the cross-chains; sometimes it is used only for the bit-mouth in particular. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 160 Steeds, that love the bit They champ at. < as lemmas |
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