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bridle gate

bridle gate noun: a gate designed to allow riders on horseback to pass through without dismounting.

bridle gate: a gate designed to allow riders on horseback to pass through without dismounting
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Noun

bridle gate (plural bridle gates)

  1. A gate designed to allow riders on horseback to pass through without dismounting.
    • He had entered by the bridle-gate which admitted to the park on this side, and cantered over the soft turf almost in the tracks of Fitzpiers’s horse […]1887, Thomas Hardy, chapter 1, in The Woodlanders, volume 3, page 12
    • Then the cavalry began to move off round the top of the wood, and Ophelia ushered him through the bridle gate, turning her own horse to shut it behind them.1934, T. H. White, chapter 10, in Earth Stopped, page 102

Forms of bridle gate

pluralbridle gates

Questions about bridle gate

What does bridle gate mean?
Bridle gate means a gate designed to allow riders on horseback to pass through without dismounting.
What part of speech is bridle gate?
Bridle gate is a noun.
What is the plural of bridle gate?
The plural of bridle gate is bridle gates.

Words near bridle gate in the dictionary

  1. bridi
  2. bridie
  3. bridies
  4. briding
  5. bridle
  6. bridle gate
  7. bridle gates
  8. bridle iron
  9. bridle irons
  10. bridle path
  11. bridle paths

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