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To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
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To fit reins on (a horse).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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To stop, to cause to come to a halt.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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