cheek strap

American  

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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Example Sentences

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 Titus, Harold

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

From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Hough, Emerson

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 Hough, Emerson

He caught the cheek strap of the bridle, and motioned us away as we would have helped him at the horse's head.

From The Way of a Man by Hough, Emerson

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 Bull, Charles Livingston