draw bridle

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Verb

draw bridle (third-person singular simple present draws bridle, present participle drawing bridle, simple past drew bridle, past participle drawn bridle)

  1. (equestrianism) To pull on the reins (of a horse etc.) in order to slow it down or bring it to a stop; hence, to stop, draw up.
    • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:
      When he was within a small distance of this inn, which to him seemed a castle, he drew bridle, and stopt Rozinante [] .
    • 1828, Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland:
      Surrey [] rode, without drawing bridle, to Berwick.