Wiktionary
vb. 1 To stop or slow a horse by pulling the reins 2 (context idiomatic English) To stop or slow something, by exercising control.
WordNet
v. stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins; "They reined in in front of the post office" [syn: rein]
control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse" [syn: harness, draw rein, rein]
stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins; "He reined in his horses in front of the post office" [syn: rein]
Usage examples of "rein in".
Almost at the' last moment, a young lord he remembered from outside Rand's tent flung up a hand, and then they were all drawing rein in a flurry of shouted orders that ran back along the column.
Some twenty minutes later the two men drew rein in the fine old courtyard of the ancient Manor.
His failure to keep BatDiv Twelve in closer company before Yanakov sprang his surprise in the sim might have indicated a failure to appreciate the need to rein in Trailman's attack mentality, but if that had been the case, he'd rectified it since.
By the time Bass had been able to rein in the gallowglasses, Turks, Moors, Arabs, and assorted Englishmen, every last Swede had been shot or hacked down.
By the time they managed to rein in the horses, and turn them around, the Ethiopians were already there.
Then my captains managed to rein in their sailors as I called back my marines, and ordered them to lock the pirates in the holds of their own ships.
His failure to keep BatDiv Twelve in closer company before Yanakov sprang his surprise in the sim might have indicated a failure to appreciate the need to rein in Trailman’.
When they had left the trees on the far side of the river, Steve saw Bedwyr rein in and glance over his shoulder to make sure all his riders had crossed safely.
Something had to be done to rein in the overweening Spanish and Moorish factions, lest all Italy be laid waste by them and their imported barbarians.
She vastly preferred officers she might need to rein in occasionally to being stuck with ones too timid to act on their own.
He held up a hand to rein in his men, then approached the British fliers alone.