witch's bridle noun2 •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. — 2008 •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. — 2006 formswitch's bridles
