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A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks..
Use check rein when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Check rein means A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks..
Common synonyms include bearing rein.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use check rein where its definition matches the intended context.
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