1598 J. Florio Brigliaro, a bit or bridle-maker.
1876 G. Grote v. 136 The end of the bridle-maker is subservient to that of the horseman.
2011 62 479 In the courtship letters of John Fawdington, a bridle-maker of Asenby, Yorkshire, we find a man trying to write about his emotions in the language of sensibility.