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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"
Category relationships: Driving
Generic synonyms: Halt, Stop
Derivative terms: Rein
2. Verb. Control and direct with or as if by reins. "Rein a horse"
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"
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
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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