Definition of Rein in

1. Verb. Stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins. "They reined in in front of the post office"

Exact synonyms: Rein
Category relationships: Driving
Generic synonyms: Halt, Stop
Derivative terms: Rein

2. Verb. Control and direct with or as if by reins. "Rein a horse"
Exact synonyms: Draw Rein, Harness, Rein
Generic synonyms: Command, Control
Derivative terms: Harness, Rein

3. Verb. Stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins. "He reined in his horses in front of the post office"
Exact synonyms: Rein
Specialized synonyms: Pull
Generic synonyms: Stop
Derivative terms: Rein

Definition of Rein in

1. Verb. To stop or slow a horse by pulling the reins ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To stop or slow something, by exercising control. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rein In

reimpresses
reimpressing
reimpression
reimpressions
reimprint
reimprinted
reimprinting
reimprints
reimprison
reimprisoned
reimprisoning
reimprisonment
reimprisons
rein
rein-in
rein in (current term)
rein orchid
rein orchis
rein up
reinaugurate
reinaugurated
reinaugurates
reinaugurating
reinauguration
reinaugurations
reincarcerate
reincarcerated
reincarcerates
reincarcerating
reincarceration

Literary usage of Rein in

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Eight Years in Canada: Embracing a Review of the Administrations of Lords by Richardson (John) (1847)
"... lost sight of the excitement of the morning, and yet with this I hazarded the journey. My tiger bad never had a rein in his hand, ..."

2. The Tribune Book of Open-air Sports by Ottmar Mergenthaler, Henry Hall (1887)
"Standing near his left shoulder, take the right snaffle rein in your ... Take the left snaffle rein in the left hand and feel the horse's mouth with it. ..."

3. Frank Forester's Horse and Horsemanship of the United States and British by Henry William Herbert (1857)
"So, we must commence with the rein and the leg of the same side; when it is time to pass to the second part of the work, we must employ the curb-rein in the ..."

4. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1823)
"On the other hand, there are advantages, and no trifling ones, attending the short wheel-rein. In the first place, there is a neatness aboutit. ..."

5. A Complete Handbook for the Sanitary Troops of the U. S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1917)
"The right rein in the right hand, and the left rein in the left hand, coming in on the underside of the little finger, and coming out over the second joint ..."

6. Encyclopædia of the Laws of England with Forms and Precedents by the Most by Alexander Wood Renton, Maxwell Anderson Robertson, Frederick Pollock, William Bowstead (1906)
"rule provides that a solicitor not entering an appearance, or putting in bail, or paying money into Court in lieu of bail in an Admiralty action in rein in ..."

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