Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short rein that extends from a horse's bit to the saddle to keep the horse from lowering its head.
- noun A rein joining the bit of one of a span of horses to the driving rein of the other horse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short rein joining the bit of one of a span of horses to the driving-rein of the other.
- noun A short rein fastened to the saddle of a harness to keep the horse's head up. See cut under
harness . - noun Also called
check and check-line.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a
bearing rein . - noun A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
strap used to keephorses ' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position
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Examples
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He smiled as he reined the horse around a deep puddle in the road, leading mine by the checkrein after him.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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It would disperse when Delp brought in reinforcements, but it had accomplished its purpose-to break up the formation and checkrein the seaward movement.
The Earth Book of Stormgate Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1978
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Nature drives by two reins, and one is a checkrein.
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The system of checks and balances which it sets up has enabled the growing nation to adapt itself to every need and at the same time to checkrein every bid for arbitrary power.
The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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Her small library skimmed the cream of the insurgents and revolutionaries of genius; and here the shy and reticent schoolgirl with the mark of the churchly checkrein fresh upon her, was free to browse, for her cousin had no slightest notion of playing censor.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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"She needs a checkrein," he declared, "an 'she needs it bad," a remark which so incensed Patrolman McDonogh that Sedyard decided to explain:
New Faces Myra Kelly 1893
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Without the masses pulling tightly on the checkrein, the fed will no doubt feel obligated to issue more rescue plans which might include the salvation of credit card debtors (card debt now stands at $970 billion) or the confiscation of 401k accounts.
WNYMedia 2008
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If I call to ye, drop the checkrein and run for it. "
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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