rein
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Is rein a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of rein?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.Examples: "The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices."; "Let their eyes rove without rein."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To direct or stop a horse by using reins.Examples: "He mounts and reins his horse."transitive
2. (transitive) To restrain; to control; to check.Examples: "Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance."; "After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs."transitive
3. (intransitive) To obey directions given with the reins.Examples: "She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly."intransitive
noun (English)
1. (now rare, archaic, chiefly in plural) A kidney.Examples: "a man subject to these like imaginations[…]hath often the stone imaginarily, before he have it in his reines[…]."; "He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins."archaicplural
noun (English)
1. (telecommunications) Acronym of repetitive electrical impulse noise.abbreviationacronymalt-ofuncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary