bridling
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]bridling
- present participle and gerund of bridle
Noun
[edit]bridling (plural bridlings)
- The act of one who bridles.
- 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, Tales of Fashionable Life
- […] with infinite difficulty in bringing herself to speak on such a subject, after inconceivable bridlings of the head, and contortions of every muscle of her neck, she insinuated to him her fears […]
- 1809-1812, Maria Edgeworth, Tales of Fashionable Life