- to guide or direct (a horse) with the pressure of a rein on the opposite side of the neck from the direction in which the rider wishes to travel.
verb (used without object)- (of a horse) to respond to such pressure from a rein by going in the desired direction.
Origin of neck-rein
First recorded in 1925–30
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