rearing bit
English edit
Noun edit
rearing bit (plural rearing bits)
- A bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting the head when rearing.
- 1857, Harry Hieover, Precept and Practice:
- [if the horse] tosses up his head so violently or pertinaciously as to become unbearable , ride him a few times in a rearing bit
References edit
- “rear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.