Associations to the word «Checkrein»

Wiktionary

CHECKREIN, noun. A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck.

Dictionary definition

CHECKREIN, noun. A rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats