Word Meanings - BRIDLER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton.
Related words: (words related to BRIDLER)
- MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - BRIDLE IRON
A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - BRIDLER
One who bridles; one who restrains and governs, as with a bridle. Milton. - BRIDLE
The piece in the interior of a gun lock, which holds in place the timbler, sear, etc. A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle. A mooring hawser. Bowline bridle. See - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology. - UNBRIDLE
To free from the bridle; to set loose. - UNBRIDLED
Loosed from the bridle, or as from the bridle; hence, unrestrained; licentious; violent; as, unbridled passions. "Unbridled boldness." B. Jonson. Lands deluged by unbridled floods. Wordsworth. -- Un*bri"dled*ness, n. Abp. Leighton.