lip-strap

English

Etymology

lip +‎ strap

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /lɪpstɹæp/

Noun

lip-strap (plural lip-straps)

  1. 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 its mouth.
    • 1888, Rudyard Kipling, ‘Watches of the Night’, Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio 2005, p. 59:
      He was not a horsey man, but he liked people to believe he had been one once; and he wove fantastic stories of the hunting-bridle to which this particular lip-strap had belonged.
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