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witch's bridle

noun

Definitions

  1. A scold's bridle.

    • [It, unlike] witch's bridles, iron gags and thumbscrews, was first used in 1565. Tall, black, menacing, it was indisputably what a guillotine should be.

  2. A witch's stirrup (tangle in a horse's mane).

    • ... witch's bridles, tangles in his mane . The chestnut's white blaze and mane were liabilities after dark, so Cas left him tethered in graze behind the pines.

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