The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

BRIDLE-HAND

.—The left is so called, in contra-distinction to the right, which, in racing, is termed the whip; and in military evolutions with cavalry, called the sword hand. Those who are deemed good sportsmen, or complete horsemen, manage the reins with equal dexterity, and one hand is generally as much in use as the other.