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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Quotation dates: 1663
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Millen-bridle, n. (Cf. mod. Eng. dial. (Shropshire) mullin-bridle ‘a kind of bridle with blinkers used for cart-horses’ and Mollet(t)-bridill and Mol(l)et(t n.2) —1663 Sc. Ant. III. iii.
A verie sinful miscarriage in some people in Easter Alves … viz. the ringing of a millen-bridle (as they call it) upon ane aged and diseased poor woman … thereby to hasten her to death. … Agnes Robb confessed she … brought to the house the bridle at the diseased woman her own desyre
