[f. BRIDLE v. + -ER1.]
1. One who bridles, restrains or controls.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 395/1. The greatest brideler of the popes usurped power.
1611. Cotgr., Bridoye, a goose-bridler (a nickname for a Lawyer).
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., vii. Wks. (1851), 135. The only bridlers of schisme.
1877. Blackie, Wise Men, 111. The tamer of tigers, the bridler of bears.
† 2. A bridle-maker. Obs. rare.
1652. Wadsworth, trans. Sandoval’s Civ. Wars Spain, 330. Alonso de Vera, a bridler and one of the … Citie officers.
