draw bridle
English
Verb
draw bridle (third-person singular simple present draws bridle, present participle drawing bridle, simple past drew bridle, past participle drawn bridle)
- 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, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, 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.
- 1755, Tobias Smollett, translating Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2: