Meaning of rein up | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins.
   intransitive
2. To fit reins on (a horse).
   transitive
3. To stop, to cause to come to a halt.
   transitive

Examples

“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.”

“"Well," said York, "if they come⟳ here, they must wear⟳ the bearing rein. I prefer⟳ a loose rein myself, and his lordship is always very reasonable about horses; but my lady—that's another thing, she will have⟳ style; and if her carriage horses are not reined up tight, she wouldn't look⟳ at them.[…]"”

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