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leading rein

leading rein noun: a rein used to lead an animal (especially a horse) when there is no rider, or when the rider is young or inexperienced.

Noun

leading rein (plural leading reins)

  1. A rein used to lead an animal (especially a horse) when there is no rider, or when the rider is young or inexperienced.
    • By that time I was going for rides of six or seven miles with Dixon, and the ‘leading-rein’ was a thing of the past.1928, Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Penguin, published 2013, page 11

Forms of leading rein

pluralleading reins

Questions about leading rein

What does leading rein mean?
Leading rein means a rein used to lead an animal (especially a horse) when there is no rider, or when the rider is young or inexperienced.
What part of speech is leading rein?
Leading rein is a noun.
What is the plural of leading rein?
The plural of leading rein is leading reins.

Words near leading rein in the dictionary

  1. leading off
  2. leading on
  3. leading out
  4. leading question
  5. leading questions
  6. leading rein
  7. leading reins
  8. leading seaman
  9. leading seamen
  10. leading someone down the garden path
  11. leading someone up the garden path

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