ˈbridle-ˈbit
The bit or mouth-piece of a bridle. Hence † bridle-bitter, a maker of bridle-bits.
| [c 1440 Promp. Parv. 37 Bytt of a brydylle, lupatum.] c 1500 Cocke Lorelles B. (1843) 9 Brydel bytters, blacke smythes, and ferrars. 1535 Coverdale 2 Kings xix. 28 Therfore wyll I put a rynge in thy nose, and a brydle bytt in thy lippes. 1640 Habington Hist. Edw. IV, 178 Able to buy the Spurres and Bridle-bits in his Campe. 1828–41 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 189 note, Amid a heap of chaff and dust, lay several human bones, along with a large and powerful bridle-bit. |