Definitions for snaffle

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snaffle snaf·fle

Spelling: [snaf-uh l]

IPA: /ˈsnæf əl/

Snaffle is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 119 anagrams from letters in snaffle (aefflns).

Definitions for snaffle

noun

1. Also called snaffle bit. a bit, usually jointed in the middle and without a curb, with a large ring at each end to which a rein and cheek strap are attached.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a snaffle on (a horse).
2. to control with or as with a snaffle.
3. to appropriate for one's own use, especially by devious means; purloin; filch.

Origin of snaffle

1525-35; origin uncertain; compare Old Frisian snavel mouth, Dutch snavel, German Schnabel beak, bill

Examples for snaffle

The snaffle may be added when he goes freely in the head-stall.

He rattled the snaffle in his mouth with nervous indecision—he had a notion to try it.

In the left hand, the snaffle to the left of the thumb, the curb to the right.

The horse must be ridden in a snaffle, as young Flixton could tell you.

It may be necessary for her to ride at this pace with a double bridle (curb and snaffle).

The lady in Fig. 102 is riding only with a snaffle, and with a nice easy length of rein.

Only don't you go a-pullin' at her, ride her in the snaffle, and as light as you can.

Some fillies you can drive with a snaffle, others need the curb.

That girl, madam, needs the curb, and you have been guiding her with the snaffle.'

Fig. 100 shows how the curb and snaffle reins should be held.