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  2. Snaffle bit - Wikipedia

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    Jointed mouthpiece: applies pressure to the tongue, lips, and bars with a "nutcracker" action. This is the most common mouthpiece found on a snaffle. [1]: 55 Straight mouthpiece: A straight bar with no curve. Several bit designs use a straight bar where the bit can be flipped over, thus using either the smooth bar side or a twisted bar.

  3. Double bridle - Wikipedia

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    A double bridle, also called a full bridle or Weymouth bridle, [1] is a bridle that has two bits and four reins (sometimes called "double reins"). One bit is the bradoon (or bridoon ), is a modified snaffle bit that is smaller in diameter and has smaller bit rings than a traditional snaffle, and it is adjusted so that it sits above and in front ...

  4. Bit (horse) - Wikipedia

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    The bits of a double bridle, showing both a type of snaffle bit called a bradoon and a curb bit. A bit consists of two basic components, the bit mouthpiece that goes inside the horse's mouth, and the bit rings of a snaffle bit or shanks of a curb bit, to which the bridle and reins attach.

  5. Bridle - Wikipedia

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    A hunt seat style English bridle Western show bridle. A bridle is a piece of equipment used to direct a horse. As defined in the Oxford English Dictionary, the "bridle" includes both the headstall that holds a bit that goes in the mouth of a horse, and the reins that are attached to the bit. It provides additional control and communication ...

  6. Guide bar - Wikipedia

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    Guide bars, or guiding bars [1] are rubber-tyred metro systems that incorporate 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge track. They have angle irons as outside of the two roll ways . The Busan Subway Line 4 lacks a rail track , and has I-beams installed as guide bars.

  7. Bitless bridle - Wikipedia

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    A cross-under bitless bridle. A bitless bridle is a general term describing a wide range of headgear for horses or other animals that controls the animal without using a bit. Direction control may also be via a noseband or cavesson, if one is used. The term hackamore is the most historically accurate word for most common forms of bitless headgear.

  8. Wood drying - Wikipedia

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    Furthermore, free water may contain chemicals, altering the drying characteristics of wood. Bound or hygroscopic water Bound water is bound to the wood via hydrogen bonds. The attraction of wood for water arises from the presence of free hydroxyl (OH) groups in the cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin molecules in the cell wall. The hydroxyl ...

  9. Aircraft catapult - Wikipedia

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    The bridle would then be caught by nets aside the horn. Bridles have not been used on U.S. aircraft since the end of the Cold War, and all U.S. Navy carriers commissioned since then have not had the ramps. The last U.S. carrier commissioned with a bridle catcher was USS Carl Vinson; starting with USS Theodore Roosevelt the ramps