† trenchefiltranchefiln.
Obsolete. rare.
1. In a double-stringed crossbow, the part by which the two strings were united and into which the neb or tip of the bolt was set in shooting; the material of which this was made. Cf. trench n. 9 there.
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trenchefil1369
gutter1555
chase1611
trench1611
killesse1867
1369–72 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer Bundle 178 No. 16 m. 4 (P.R.O.) Patricio Byker artillario Regis..lxiiij lb. fili pro cordis balistarum lij lb. trussyngthred lj. lb. di. trenchefyll.
2. Part of a bridle: according to Cotgrave, ‘a snaffle, or the mouth of a snaffle, or watering Bit’.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle > parts of
headstallc1330
trench1480
stalk1497
musrol1551
head-strain?1561
water-chain?1561
throat band1585
cavesson1598
mullen1598
nose bit?a1600
front-stall1601
ampyx1607
chain1607
fillet1607
cheek-band1611
cheekpiece1611
noseband1611
throat thong1611
headpiece1678
throatlatch1693
headband1704
trenchefil1730
bridoon1744
banquet1753
head1756
cheek1795
throat strap1803
frontlet1805
throat-lash1805
cheekstrap1834
brow-band1844
nosepiece1865
shank1879
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Bitt (with Horsemen), in general signifies the whole machine of a bridle, as the bit-mouth, the branches, the curb, the sevil holes, the tranchefil, and the cross chains.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Tranchefile, in the manege, the cross chain of a bridle that runs along the bit-mouth, from one branch to the other.
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