snaffle

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A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (gloss). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.
(RQ:Sewell Black Beauty)
Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.
(RQ:Churchill Celebrity)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.
To put a snaffle on, or control with a snaffle.
To clutch by the bridle.
To grab or seize; to up.
To purloin, or obtain by devious means.
(quote-book) 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 (..)