reest

¹ American  

[reest] / rist /

verb (used with object)

Scot. and North England.

1. to cure, smoke, or dry (meat or fish).

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reest ² American  

[reest] / rist /

Or reist

verb (used without object)

Scot. and North England.

1. (of a horse) to stop or refuse to go; balk.

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reest British  

/ riːst /

verb

1. dialect (intr) (esp of horses) to be noisily uncooperative

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Etymology

Origin of reest¹

1500–10; perhaps < Scandinavian; compare Danish, Norwegian riste to roast

Origin of reest²

First recorded in 1780–90; dialectal variant of rest ¹

Example Sentences

Scot. reest, reist, means to stand stock-still— "Certain it was that Shagram reisted, and I ken Martin thinks he saw something."

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

Gay Garland had carried my father over long to reest with him at the hinderend.

From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)