a set of leather bands, attached to REINS, which is put around a horse's head and used for controlling it
Part of speech: verb
1 [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.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is bridle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, bridle is tagged as noun.
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