rein up

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins. intransitive
    — 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. To fit reins on (a horse). transitive
    — "Well," said York, "if they come here, they must wear the bearing rein. I prefer a loose rein myself, and his lordship is always very reasonable about horses; but my lady—that's another thing, she will have style; and if her carriage horses are not reined up tight, she wouldn't look at them.[…]"
  3. To stop, to cause to come to a halt. transitive

词形变化

reins up present,singular,third-person reining up participle,present reined up participle,past reined up past
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