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)

1. (equestrianism) 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, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, 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.