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Definition of Checkreins
1. checkrein [n] - See also: checkrein
Lexicographical Neighbors of Checkreins
Literary usage of Checkreins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Course in the Teaching Process by George Drayton Strayer (1911)
"Sketches of different kinds of checkreins: the overdraw check and its effect;
side check and its effect. Different head and ear postures of horses ..."
2. Elements of Agriculture: For Use in Schools by James Bolton McBryde (1901)
"The utterly senseless and cruel practice of using checkreins to force horses to
hold up their heads in an unnatural position cannot be too strongly ..."
3. Doings of the Annual Meeting by American Humane Association (1896)
"The need of blinders and checkreins I have found to depend upon the early training
and individual disposition of the animal, and often desirable. ..."
4. Monthly Consular and Trade Reports by United States Bureau of Manufactures (1907)
"Replying to an American letter relating to the efforts which are now being made
to obtain the enactment of statutes to forbid the use of checkreins on ..."
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