leading rein

noun

A rein used to lead an animal (especially a horse) when there is no rider, or when the rider is young or inexperienced.

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Meanings

nounleading rein (plural leading reins)

plural leading reins

  1. A rein used to lead an animal (especially a horse) when there is no rider, or when the rider is young or inexperienced.

    By that time I was going for rides of six or seven miles with Dixon, and the ‘leading-rein’ was a thing of the past.

    1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 11
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “leading rein,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/leading%20rein.

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