Dict: easton - Metheg-ammah

easton:

Metheg-ammah @ bridle of the mother, a figurative name for a chief city, as in kjv@2Samuel:8:1, "David took Metheg-ammah out of the hand of the Philistines" (R.V., "took the bridle of the mother-city"); i.e., subdued their capital or strongest city, viz., Gath ( kjv@1Chronicles:18:1).