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canon bit en · NOUN

Etymology

From French canon, from Latin canon (“a rule”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, rare) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
   • […] A goodly person, and could menage faire His stubborne steed with curbed canon bit 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
   • blind the disunions of complaining nature in chains together, and curb them with a canon bit 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:

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