rein
noun
Often a leather strap, fastened to each end of the bit of a bridle, by which the rider or driver controls a horse or other animal by pulling so as to exert pressure on the bit.
reinless
-
a word derived from
rein.
Example Sentences
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Every centimeter an equestrienne on her white mount, Yasmin Khan, 9, daughter of Aly Khan and Cinemactress Rita Hay worth, displayed some reinless riding form in the posh French seaside resort of Deauville.
From Time Magazine Archive
The reinless steed galloping on, with rider directing its tail, was ludicrous enough to behold.
From The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo
Both the Turkish and Persian mail is carried in saddle-bags on the backs of reinless horses driven at a rapid gallop before the mounted mail-carrier or herdsman.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Thomas Gaskell Allen
He had fallen asleep and reinless fancy had played him the fantastic trick, from which, cramped and dazed, he had just awakened to the old sweet reality.
From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill
I as a bold youth would speak: Yonder, having lost its rider, I behold a noble steed Wandering reinless and unbridled, Mount and fly with him while I Guard the open path behind thee.
From Life Is a Dream by Denis Florence MacCarthy
