bridledadj.
/ˈbrʌɪdld/, U.S. /ˈbraɪd(ə)ld/ 1. Of a horse or other animal: wearing or equipped with a bridle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > having bridle
bridled?a1425
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 167 (MED) An hors sadeled & brydeled.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1114 There nas courser wel I-brydelid non.
1638 S. Marmion Morall Poem sig. G3v Silver-footed Thetis, riding in Vpon a bridled Dolphin.
1852 M. F. Tupper Proverb. Philos. 193 His bridled steed.
1922 P. A. Rollins Cowboy vii. 150 The bridled pony steadily champed the roller of his bit.
2019 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 5 June a62 A stolid earthenware sculpture of a bridled horse with saddle, made for a burial mound in the sixth century.
2. That is restrained, restricted, or kept under control. Cf. bridle v. 1.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained
bridled1567
retent1568
restrained1578
controlled1581
snubbed1583
retained1592
retentive1599
curbed1600
repressed1606
stifleda1643
suspense1667
light1740
reined-in1740
checked1793
reined-up1835
reticent1877
snaffled1877
directed1891
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 48 I mynde of all my brydled lust to let the Raynes at large.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 196. ⁋3 A bridled Rage.
1890 Review of Reviews Nov. 478/1 The decorative fantasies of a scarcely bridled imagination.
2012 FT.com (Nexis) 3 Sept. The sense of freedom from the earthly constraints of weight and gravity that dance can engender is wholly absent, in its place a nervy, introspective, bridled quality.
3. Of a thing: having or fitted with a bridle (in various senses of bridle n. II.); that has been bridled (cf. bridle v. 5).
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1745 Daily Advertiser 6 June 1 Chest, containing 150 new Pistols, Brass-mounted, with bridled Locks, and Walnut-Tree Stocks.
1914 Brooms, Brushes & Handles May 36 The bridled brushes are the two illustrated on the left.
1971 Chesapeake Sci. 12 47/2 Meter nets used in this study were bridled nets, equipped with #00 monofilament nylon mesh.
2004 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 4 Apr. a4 A proposal to use tug boats to tow a bridled, insulation-wrapped iceberg from Atlantic Canada to desperately dry southern Spain and Portugal.
4. Of a bird or other animal: having markings on the head or neck thought to resemble a bridle.Chiefly in names of birds and other animals.
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the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having markings of particular shape
ermined1486
radiated1793
bridled?a1808
saddle-backed1838
moon-eyed1896
?a1808 Universal Syst. Nat. Hist. X. 57 (heading) The bridled parrot-fish.
1829 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom VII. 491 Bridled Parrakeet.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 340 Dr. Gambel..bestowed upon it the title of the Bridled Tern (S. frenata).
1921 A. C. Bent Life Hist. N. Amer. Gulls & Terns (National Mus. Bull. 113) 287 The bridled tern so closely resembles its near relative, the sooty tern, that it can hardly be distinguished from it in life by the casual observer.
1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans iii. 98 The normal and so-called bridled variety of the guillemot, which latter has a white spectacle mark round the eye.
2005 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 4 Sept. 28/6 The other Queensland animals in the Top 10 most endangered species are the mahogany glider.., bridled nailtail wallaby, eastern bristlebird, northern bettong and the golden-tailed gecko.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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