check-rein

English

Noun

check-rein (plural check-reins)

1. Alternative form of checkrein
   • [1890], A[nna] Sewell, “A London Cab Horse”, in Black Beauty: […], American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] [T]he American Humane Education Society, →OCLC, part III, page 159:

     Captain went out in the cab all the morning. Harry came in after school to feed me and give me water. In the afternoon I was put into the cab. Jerry took as much pains to see if the collar and bridle fitted comfortably as if he had been John Manly over again. When the crupper was let out a hole or two, it all fitted well. There was no check-rein, no curb, nothing but a plain ring snaffle. What a blessing that was!

     This edition was published posthumously. The first edition (1877) uses bearing rein.