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draw bridle en · VERB
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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.
Surrey […] rode, without drawing bridle, to Berwick.
1828, Patrick Fraser Tytler, History of Scotland:When he was within a small distance of this inn, which to him seemed a castle, he drew bridle, and stopt Rozinante […].
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:
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