All 50 Uses of
rein
in
When the Legends Die
- He slid off the exhausted horse, removed the surcingle and nose rein, and waited for Benny to speak.†
Chpt 19
- Classes started again, and because he seemed useless at any other craft they sent him back to Ed Porter to plait rawhide and horsehair into quirts and riatas and bridles and reins.†
Chpt 19
- Thomas sat in the wagon, holding the reins, while Albert went in and talked with the trader.†
Chpt 21
- It was a black and white horsehair bridle with long round-braided reins.†
Chpt 21
- Then he snubbed the reins to the saddle horn, untied the rope, got his foot in the stirrup.†
Chpt 21
- With the reins snubbed it couldn't get its head down, but it buck-jumped in a circle among the trees before he knew he could ride it, knew he had its rhythm and his own balance.†
Chpt 21
- Then he gave it a little slack in the reins and it bucked viciously a time or two before he got it headed up the street.†
Chpt 21
- Still holding its head high with the snubbed reins, he rode it to the waiting cowhands.†
Chpt 21
- He got off and handed the reins to the one who had sent him on the errand.†
Chpt 21
- The cowhand growled, "You snubbed the reins.†
Chpt 21
- Slim shortened the reins in his left hand, caught the saddle horn and reached for the near stirrup.†
Chpt 21
- The horse shied, tossed its head, got slack in the reins.†
Chpt 21
- Without snubbing the reins.†
Chpt 21
- He took the reins, gave them one turn around his left hand and reached for the saddle horn.†
Chpt 21
- Then he tightened his knees beneath the pommel, let the horse have slack in the reins and rode with the buck.†
Chpt 21
- Thomas got off and handed the reins to the dark-haired cowhand, who gave him a silver dollar.†
Chpt 21
- Meo twisted its ears and held its head while Tom mounted, adjusted the rein in his left hand and settled himself in the saddle.†
Chpt 22
- Red caught the horse, said, "Too much rein.†
Chpt 22
- "Not enough rein," Red announced.†
Chpt 22
- Tom, riding in dry chaps, felt the rein slip in his sweaty hands, tried to recover the slack, lost a stirrup and went head over heels.†
Chpt 22
- Tom recovered his breath, dried his hands on his shirt, got into the saddle again, adjusted the rein, and Meo opened the gate.†
Chpt 22
- The roan fought the rein.†
Chpt 22
- He took the rein, threaded it between his fingers, adjusted it for length.†
Chpt 22
- Tom kept the rein taut, rode without trouble for several seconds.†
Chpt 22
- He must hold the rein in one hand, not touch saddle or horse with the other hand, must rake with his spurs, keep his feet moving, and he must ride ten seconds.†
Chpt 23
- Then a horn would blow, a mounted pickup man would come alongside, take the rein from the rider and let the rider pivot out of the saddle, off the bucking bronc, and swing down to the ground.†
Chpt 23
- The pickup man rode alongside, Tom handed him the rein, grabbed his shoulder and swung out of the saddle as Red had taught him.†
Chpt 23
- In the finals you re going to give your horse slack in the rein after the first few jumps and look for a soft place to land.†
Chpt 23
- Tom said, "I know," and settled himself in the saddle, adjusted the rein, jerked his hat tight, set his spurs.†
Chpt 23
- But after the first few bucks he let the rein slip as the black ducked its head.†
Chpt 23
- They checked halter and rein.†
Chpt 23
- He adjusted the rein carefully, jammed his hat tight, set his spurs.†
Chpt 23
- He jerked viciously at the rein, giving an inch of slack, then snapping it back as though trying to break the horse's neck.†
Chpt 23
- Tom gave it more rein, and it got its head around to the right and bucked in the tight circle Red had warned about.†
Chpt 23
- He gave it all the rein it wanted, but it merely drooped its head.†
Chpt 23
- He couldn't keep pressure on the rein.†
Chpt 26
- He slapped his horse with his rein ends and they went out of town in a cloud of white dust.†
Chpt 26
- Keep a short rein, power the bastard all you can, and you can ride him till hell-and-gone.†
Chpt 27
- Tom settled himself in the saddle, dried his hands, measured a short rein and threaded it between his fingers.†
Chpt 27
- Tom powered the rein, hauled the horse's head around, and it went hog-wild.†
Chpt 27
- The feel of the horse you got through the rein, taut in your left hand.†
Chpt 28
- Don't give him too much rein.†
Chpt 29
- He let himself down into the saddle and the old man handed him the rein.†
Chpt 29
- He laced the rein through his fingers.†
Chpt 29
- He grabbed the rein and Tom automatically reached for his shoulder, swung out of the saddle and pivoted off the pickup man's horse onto the ground.†
Chpt 29
- You powered the duckers and dodgers that kept changing rhythm, but the pattern buckers didn't need all that pressure on the rein.†
Chpt 31
- The horse lunged twice, ducked, the rein slipped and Tom was almost thrown.†
Chpt 32
- He resined his chaps, dried his hands, eased into the saddle and measured his rein.†
Chpt 32
- Tom, fighting the rein, was thrown heavily against the chute.†
Chpt 32
- Learning to punish with raking spurs, a vicious rein, a brutal ride.†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(rein as in: to rein in their activities) to restrain or control; or a means of controlThe meaning of rein depends upon its context. For example:
- "keep a tight rein on the new employee," or "rein in a horse" -- to control or restrain
- "give the new employee free rein," or "give the horse full rein" -- do not restrain
- "the reins of government" -- means of control
- "the reins of the horse" -- leather straps used with a bit to control a horse (You might like to think of other senses of rein as being figurative derivations from this sense.)