snaffle — Từ điển tiếng Anh

Danh từ

1. A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and the corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.

   Ví dụ

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   Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably, as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no bearing rein—no curb—nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

   “I shall have to take the mare to-morrow,” said the Tertium Quid, “and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaffle.”

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   For many horses the best bit to use in the field is a plain snaffle, with very large rings, so that the bit cannot be pulled through the horse’s mouth. The bridle should have a cavesson, instead of the usual noseband.

2. Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.

   Cách dùng

   • nghĩa bóng

   Ví dụ

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   Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.

Động từ

1. To put a snaffle on, or control with a snaffle.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

2. To quell or suppress.

   Cách dùng

   • broadly
   • nghĩa bóng
   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   Julian Joolby, when will you learn to snaffle your violent emotion?

3. To clutch by the bridle.

   Cách dùng

   • ngoại động từ

4. To grab or seize; to snap up.

   Cách dùng

   • không trang trọng
   • ngoại động từ

   Ví dụ

   “That was my inspiration back in 2005,” he says, snaffling his third roll.

5. To purloin, or obtain by devious means.

   Cách dùng

   • không trang trọng
   • ngoại động từ

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   […] the Master at Arms, the senior member of the lower deck and chief policeman, was found to be drunk; he must have snaffled some of the crew's rum ration always kept closely guarded in a special locker […]

6. To talk foolishly.

   Cách dùng

   • Norfolk
   • cách dùng ở Anh
   • cổ ngữ
   • nội động từ

   Ví dụ

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   In Norfolk, "jaffle" is used in the sense of idle discourse, of an indecent or malicious character; and a prating busybody is said to be "always a snaffling and jafflin about what don't concern him."

Danh từ

1. a simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   snaffle bit

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   bit

Động từ

1. get hold of or seize quickly and easily

   Từ đồng nghĩa

   snap upgrab

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   take

   Ví dụ

   I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale

2. fit or restrain with a snaffle

   Từ có nghĩa rộng hơn

   bridle

   Ví dụ

   snaffle a horse