In German the word was also used for the scold's bridle.

The scold's bridle did not see much use in the New World.

A scold's bridle was a metal mask that locked around a person's head.

The scold's bridle had a tab that went into the victims mouth to make it difficult to talk.

But one thing remains intact - a scold's bridle.

However, some less formal sources do tell of scolds being punished with scold's bridles.

Some people say that common scolds had to wear a scold's bridle to stop them from scolding.

The bit, sometimes depicted as the scold's bridle, uses similar mechanics to that of the common horse bit.

Among the grim objects displayed are a full-size stocks, a scold's bridle and a scaffold.

In the heroine's garden a skeleton of a 17th-century woman is uncovered, the corpse had been buried wearing a scold's bridle.

A scold's bridle was another punishment device.

During the Middle Ages, a scold's bridle, also called a brank, was an instrument of punishment used primarily on women.

Thus begins "The Scold's Bridle," a murder mystery of the old-fashioned variety, at least on the face of it.

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Exhibits include instruments of torture, shrew's fiddles, scold's bridles, medieval legal texts and guidance on witch trials.

It's with Dave that "The Scold's Bridle" properly parts company with classic detective fiction.

To the right of the Shannon Memorial is a box containing a reproduction of a Scold's Bridle.

They included the imposition of the ducking stool, pillory, jougs, a shrew's fiddle, or a scold's bridle.

Other objects housed in the museum include the iron maiden, skull crusher, judas chair, Catherine Wheels and Scold's bridle.

In Scotland, well into the 18th and 19th centuries, the pillory, the scold's bridle, and the "rough music" of charivari were deployed against those who crossed boundaries.

A SCOLD'S bridle is a grotesque medieval contraption used to silence "a rude clamorous woman."

The scold's bridle is also referred to in the book Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.

The Scold's Bridle, starring Miranda Richardson, Sian Phillips and Bob Peck, is currently in production.

Muzzle gags are probably one of the oldest gags and illustrations showing muzzle-like gag devices such as scold's bridles have been observed from early colonial times.

She was fastened to the wall of her cell by a witch's bridle, an iron instrument with 4 sharp prongs forced into the mouth, so that two prongs pressed against the tongue, and the two others against the cheeks.

In the town's Meffan Museum you'll find the Witch's Bridle, a grisly iron collar with a blunt spike which was forced into the unfortunate witch's mouth to stop her screaming while she was being burned at the stake.

Agnes Sampson was fastened to the wall of her cell by a witch's bridle - an iron device with four sharp prongs forced into the mouth and cheeks - had a rope pulled around her head and was deprived of sleep until she confessed.