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rearing bit (plural rearing bits)

  1. 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

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