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segundo|sɪˈgʌndəʊ|
[f. the name of Juan Segundo, the author of a book on bridle bits.
The British Museum has a copy in Spanish dated 1855, and one in French dated 1829. An English translation, ‘from the original Spanish MS. which was dedicated to George IV. in 1832’, was printed in Latchford's book cited below.]
A kind of bridle bit. Also attrib.
1860G. J. Whyte-Melville Mkt. Harb. xvii, An animal that may have the pace of a race-horse, but requires a segundo bridle, and a hundred-acre field to turn him in. 1871B. Latchford The Loriner List of Engravings, Segundo Bit, No. 41. Buxton Segundo, No. 81. |