lip-strap

lip-strap
noun /lɪpstɹæp/
A small strap with a buckle running between the cheeks of a bit, to prevent the horse from biting on the cheek of the bit in his mouth.

He was not a horsey man, but he liked people to believe he had been one once; and he wove fantastic stories of the hunting-bridle to which this particular lip-strap had belonged.


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