Definitions
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- noun A small strap with a
buckle running between the cheeks of a bit, to prevent the horse from biting on the cheek of the bit in his mouth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Colonel had a Waterbury watch also, and for guard, the lip-strap of
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Between a lip-strap and an ordinary leather guard there is no great difference; between one Waterbury watch and another there is none at all.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Every one in the station knew the Colonel's lip-strap.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He was not a horsey man, but he liked people to believe he had been on once; and he wove fantastic stories of the hunting-bridle to which this particular lip-strap had belonged.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He glanced at the shabby watch he wore upon the steel lip-strap, and waited.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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He looked at a tarnished Waterbury watch, worn on a horse's lip-strap.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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He looked at his watch -- a well-used Waterbury, worn upon the silvered steel lip-strap of a cavalry bridle, and said:
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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