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cheek strap

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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Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.

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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.

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

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When I approached Satan he lunged at me, but I caught him by the cheek strap of the bridle and swung his head close up, feeling for the saddle front as he reached for me with open mouth.

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

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