请输入您要查询的单词:

 

单词 rein up
释义

rein up

English

Verb

rein up (third-person singular simple present reins up, present participle reining up, simple past and past participle reined up)

  1. (intransitive) To bring a ridden animal to a halt by pulling on the reins.
    • 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. (transitive) To fit reins on (a horse)
    • 1877, Anna Sewell, “Chapter 22”, in Black Beauty: [], London: Jarrold and Sons, [], OCLC 228733457:
      "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. (transitive) To stop, to cause to come to a halt.

Anagrams

  • punier, purine, unripe
随便看

 

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法,是外语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间:2024/10/20 21:28:11