check-rein

A form of checkrein — A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks.

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Meanings

nouncheck-rein (plural check-reins)

plural check-reins

  1. alternativeAlternative form of checkrein.
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    Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

    [1890], A[nna] Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] [T]he American Humane Education Society, →OCLC, part III, page 159
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “check-rein,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/check-rein.

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