Crossword-Solution: NOSEBAND 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Should the dose be large, the horse ugly, or the attendant unable to support the head as directed above, the head is then to be held up by running the tines of a long-handled wooden fork under the noseband of the halter or the halter strap or a rope may be fastened to the noseband and thrown over a limb, beam, or through a pulley suspended from the ceiling.

Place of the bit in the mouth.--Principle of the bit.--Action of the common bit.--Action of the Chifney bit.--The loose eye.--The noseband.--The horse’s defence against the bit by the tongue.--Effect of the porte against this defence.--Defence by the lip.--Defence by the teeth.--Bar of the military and driving bit.--Martingale.--Danger does not result from power.

You see that a horse may cross a dangerous country speedily and in safety, though its saddle be pulpy and weather-stained, with unequal stirrup-leathers, and only one girth; though its bridle be a Pelham, _with_ a noseband, and _without_ a curb-chain, while one rein seems most untrustworthy, and the other, for want of a buckle, has its ends tied in a knot.

Albert Dougherty had taken to riding astride because she thought it was smart, and it was nothing but the grab she got of the noseband that saved her from coming off every time she came down a drop.

The loose rings of the snaffle have some extra loops, appended to which is a short noseband, acted upon by one rein, giving a powerful effect in stopping a runaway horse, whilst the use of the other rein singly has the pleasant and easy nature of the ordinary snaffle-bridle.