The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

BARS

—are the fleshy ridges at the upper part of a horse's mouth. These ridges are always more prominent in young horses than in old. When they are luxuriant towards the front teeth, and, with a kind of elastic puffiness, project and prevent mastication, they are called Lampas, (which see.) In all cases of emergency where bleeding is necessary, and the apparatus not at hand, particularly in the night, an incision or two across the bars with the fleam, instantly answers the purpose, and prevents farther ceremony.