bridoon

American  

[brahy-doon, bri-] / braɪˈdun, brɪ- /

noun

1. a snaffle when used with a curb on a full bridle.

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bridoon British  

/ brɪˈduːn /

noun

1. a horse's bit: a small snaffle used in double bridles

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Etymology

Origin of bridoon

1745–55; < French, Middle French bridon, equivalent to bride bridle ( see bride ²) + -on noun suffix

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Example Sentences

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bridoon

Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring.

From Time Magazine Archive

In bygone days, when a family tree was a ticket of admission to the National and most spectators knew a martingale from a bridoon, harness and saddle horses held the audiences spellbound.

From Time Magazine Archive

Two men, wearing black cloaks, would lead the horse by means of new handkerchiefs passed through the bridoon rings of its bridle, handkerchiefs which would become their perquisites and memento mori.

From Snake and Sword A Novel by Percival Christopher Wren

Instead of the usual bridoon, he rode with a double strap of leather, exactly the width of a bridle-rein, and twice its thickness, resting where the snaffle ordinarily lies, on the horse’s tongue and bars.

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

I have seen horses go very pleasantly in what I believe is called the half-moon bit, of which the bridoon, having no joint, is shaped so as to take the curve of the animal’s mouth.

From Riding Recollections, 5th ed. by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

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