Part of speech: nouna set of leather bands, attached to REINS, which is put around a horse's head and used for controlling it
Part of speech: verb1 [VN] to put a bridle on a horse
2 [V] ~ (at sth) (literary) to show that you are annoyed and/or offended at sth, especially by moving your head up and backwards in a proud way:
She bridled at the suggestion that she was lying.
