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cheek strap

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noun

  1. (of a bridle) one of two straps passing over the cheeks of the horse and connecting the crown piece with the bit or noseband.


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The nose and cheek strap worn by the woman and the trail-wrappings about her head allowed only a pair of black eyes to be seen. 

From Love of Life and Other Stories by Charles Livingston Bull

He seized the cheek strap of the buckskin's bridle and swung up, while the others watched the horse running out into the moonlit river.

From I Conquered by Harold Titus

Sim Gage had sprung forward and caught the cheek strap of the nearest horse.

From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Emerson Hough

Banion caught at a cheek strap as he saw Woodhull's act, and the horse was the safer for an instant.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

An instant and Banion had the cheek strap.

From The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

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