snaffle

A bit for a horse, consisting of two bars joined at the center, as by a joint.

To put on or control with a snaffle.

A bridle consisting of a slender bit-mouth with a single rein and without a curb; a snaffle-bit.

To bridle; hold or manage with a bridle.

To clutch or seize by the snaffle.

To speak through the nose.

A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; — called also snaffle bit.

To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse’s mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth. Often used as a training bit.

to put on, or control with, a snaffle