The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins. / (figuratively) A restraint; a curb; a check.

(transitive) To put a bridle on. / (transitive) To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue. / (intransitive) To show hostility or resentment.

plural of bridle

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bridle

simple past tense and past participle of bridle

Equipped with a bridle; controlled. / (chiefly ornithology) Having bridle-shaped marks.

present participle of bridle

The act of one who bridles.

plural of bridling

A Weymouth bridle, which uses both a bradoon, held by a sliphead, and a curb bit, and is used with two reins.