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Bit, Manage: a charge in the armorial ensigns of the LORINERS or bit-makers.

Azure, on a chevron argent, between three manage-bits or, as many bosses sable--Company of LORINERS. [Founded temp. HEN. VII., but incorporated 1712.]

Snaffle-bit. This appears to be distinguished from the manage-bit, and is thus represented.

Sable, three snaffle-bits or--MILNER, Pudsey, Yorksh., [also of London, 1633-4].

Boss of a bit: this is another charge in the same arms of the Company of BIT-MAKERS, as will be seen above, and it is represented as shewn in the margin.