Middle English Dictionary Entry
brīdeling ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | brīdeling ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Harnessing; (b) guidance.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?c1400) Song Roland (Lnsd 388)55 : Blowinge off bugles..trymlinge of tabers..bridlinge of stedes.
b
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)289 : For bridiling, gastyng, and refraynyng of wijlde wantowne wil, he ouȝte to be vndir a prince bering þe sword of bodily punysching.