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snaffle

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Noun, Verb (transitive)
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snaf=fle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun snaffle has 1 sense

Verb snaffle has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

snafflen. [D. snavel a beak, bill, snout; akin to G. schnabel, OHG. snabul,. sneb, snebbe, OFries. snavel mouth, Dan. & Sw. snabel beak, bill, Lith. snapas, and to E. snap, v. See Snap, and cf. Neb.].
     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.  [1913 Webster]
snafflev. t. 
     To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snaffle, n. & v.
--n. (in full snaffle-bit) a simple bridle-bit without a curb and usu. with a single rein.
--v.tr.
1 put a snaffle on.
2 colloq. steal; seize; appropriate.

Etymology
prob. f. LG or Du.: cf. MLG, MDu. snavel beak, mouth

ROGET THESAURUS

snaffle

Prison

N prison, prison house, jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell, stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold, round house, watch house, station house, sponging house, station, house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound, inclosure, isolation (exclusion), penal settlement, penal colony, bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod, calaboose, chauki, choky, thana, workhouse, Newgate, Fleet, Marshalsea, King's Bench, Queen's Bench, bond, bandage, irons, pinion, gyve, fetter, shackle, trammel, manacle, handcuff, straight jacket, strait jacket, strait-jacket, strait-waistcoat, hopples, vice, vise, yoke, collar, halter, harness, muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle, rein, reins, bearing rein, martingale, leading string, tether, picket, band, guy, chain, cord, cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons, bolt, deadbolt, bar, lock, police lock, combination lock, padlock, rail, wall, stone wall, paling, palisade, fence, picket fence, barbed wire fence, Cyclone fence, stockade fence, chain-link fence, barrier, barricade, drag.

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