Definitions for snaffles

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snaffles snaf·fle

Spelling: [snaf-uh l]

IPA: /ˈsnæf əl/

Snaffles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 145 anagrams from letters in snaffles (aefflnss).

Definitions for snaffles

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 snaffles

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

Examples for snaffles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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