unreined
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a word derived from
rein.
reinnounOften 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.
Example Sentences
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Capitalism, unreined during the 1920s, had hit another of its cyclical failures, this time its worst yet.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2015
Brad has unreined imagination and enthusiasm and what comes first with him is the gee-whiz.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2011
Decision is the first series ever to star a former President of the United States, and Truman's unreined personality is the whole show.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is more romantic than Romance, juggling nations, kings, comets, peasants in soaring obedience to unreined fancy.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Now every neighbouring realm is France's warder, And smirking satisfaction will be feigned: The which is seemlier?—so-called ancient order, Or that the hot-breath'd war-horse ramp unreined?
From The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy