Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To stop, to halt riding a horse by pulling on the reins. 2 (context transitive English) To fit reins on (a horse) 3 (context transitive English) To stop, to cause to come to a halt.
Usage examples of "rein up".
Jakes, like the other carters, always had the check-rein up, which prevented me from drawing easily, and by the time I had been there three or four months I found the work telling very much on my strength.
The two scouts ride almost two hundred cubits ahead, but rein up by the hut, glancing back at Lorn and the main force.
Lorn and Cheryk rein up, then wait in the still heat of the day while Semdyl passes the word and the other officers ride forward to join them.
It was neither his appearance nor his words that made Toveine rein up short, letting the other sisters gather beside her.
As Lorn and Ryalth rein up, the two men hurry down from the porch to untie their horses and mount.
He selected six strong mules out of the herd in the kraal, pack-saddled them and took them on a lead rein up to the rear doors of the go down He had to choose carefully as he selected goods from the warehouse to make up the loads.
Once he started to rein up to feed them, but Tarrant waved angrily for him to continue.
A series of dull thuds, followed by screaming from downed horses and yells as riders tried to rein up and avoid becoming entangled in the mass of fallen mounts and unhorsed men.
To find it, leap the roadside ditch, dash through the thicket, and rein up by the road again, was swiftly done.
Only when I mentioned that I'd be going home in a day or two, did he rein up in astonishment.
Often he was compelled to rein up suddenly lest he ride over the Southern lads themselves.
He saw the leading Wolves rein up here, dragging the mouths of their mounts into snarls with their gauntleted hands.