Bridle

A small secondary plate, mounted behind and parallel to a sidelock gun's lockplate which supports the other end of the pins about which the moving parts rotate. In the above photo of a Holland & Holland back-action lock, the bridle is the small, curvaceous, casehardened plate on the lower left, retained by two screws and through which the tumbler pin revolves.

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