reinnoun [ C usually plural ]
uk/reɪn/us/reɪn/a long, thin piece of material, especially leather, that helps you to control and direct a horse:
You pull on both reins to stop or slow a horse, but only the left rein to turn left.
UK a strap that is put around a small child's body or wrist and held at the other end by an adult so that the adult can stop the child running away:
I always put my son on reins when we go shopping.
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Horse riding
- curry
- dismount
- dressage
- gait
- gymkhana
- high-spirited
- horse riding
- horseback riding
- horseshoe
- horsey
- jib at sth
- mount
- mounted
- prance
- puissance
- rein sth in
- showjumping
- silk
- trot
- unsaddle
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Idiom(s)
free rein
keep a tight rein on sb/sth
take over/up the reins