rearing bit

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

• “rear”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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