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checkreins

checkreins is the plural of checkrein.

Meaning of checkrein

Noun

checkrein (plural checkreins)

  1. A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks.
    Synonyms:
    bearing rein

Questions about checkreins

What is checkreins the plural of?
Checkreins is the plural of checkrein.

Words near checkreins in the dictionary

  1. checkpost
  2. checkposts
  3. checkrail
  4. checkrails
  5. checkrein
  6. checkreins
  7. checkride
  8. checkrides
  9. checkroll
  10. checkrolls
  11. checkroom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: checkreins (page history and authors); checkrein (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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