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Catch some Tolkien readers, perhaps, being taken aback
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snaffle
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit ''(metal in a horse's mouth)''. It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth. Often used as a training bit. 2 (context figuratively English) Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle. ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"simple bridle-bit," 1530s, of uncertain origin, perhaps from or related to Dutch snavel "beak, bill;" compare German Schnabel "beak, face," Old English nebb , Old Norse neff "beak, nose" (see neb ).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb [syn: snaffle bit ] v. get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale" [syn: snap up , grab ] fit or restrain with a snaffle; "snaffle a horse"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snaffle \Snaf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snaffled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Snaffling .] To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.
Usage examples of snaffle.
So two rich reasons existed for Gluck to snaffle this unprepossessing chunk.
Cole went out to investigate the German wire north of Gorre with the aim of snaffling a prisoner.
Or it might have been the reluctance of the post-horses, who were refusing each gate or unlighted bystreet and worrying at their snaffles.
Betty reached up next to her, putting up her hunting bridle with the flat brow and nosebands, its simple eggbutt-jointed snaffle gleaming from rubbing.
Dewdrop Bunyan had snatched Borribles in the past for burgling purposes but he'd only snaffled them in ones and twos.
To keep from getting it dirty, he'd snaffled a few huge ear-shaped leaves from a handy plant in the lobby, and used them as a ground sheet.
Pandora slips a double snaffle bit into the horses mouth and cinches up the English saddle.
How the hell, he wondered, did Tiphaine ride this brute with a simple snaffle bit?
He even snaffled me with a …" he stopped as he caught the lieutenant's glance.
It was the stickman's job to take the pogue once Teddy had snaffled it, thus leaving Teddy clean, should there be hue and cry and a constable to stop him.
It's too damn sad the wine was snaffled, but so it was, and we must know it.
He snaffled up his second helping, too, while Mignureal stared blinking.