rein up

English

Verb

rein up (third-person singular simple present reins up, present participle reining up, simple past and past participle reined up)

1. (intransitive) To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins.
   • 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling

     He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.

2. (transitive) To fit reins on (a horse)
3. (transitive) To stop, to cause to come to a halt.

Anagrams

• punier, purine, unripe