"checkrein" meaning in All languages combined

See checkrein on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: checkreins [plural]
Etymology: check + rein Etymology templates: {{compound|en|check|rein}} check + rein Head templates: {{en-noun}} checkrein (plural checkreins)
  1. A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks. Categories (lifeform): Horse tack Synonyms: bearing rein, check-rein Derived forms: checkrein ligament
    Sense id: en-checkrein-en-noun-xlnaqJev Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for checkrein meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "check",
        "3": "rein"
      },
      "expansion": "check + rein",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "check + rein",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "checkreins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "checkrein (plural checkreins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "lifeform",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Horse tack",
          "orig": "en:Horse tack",
          "parents": [
            "Animal riding",
            "Horses",
            "Tools",
            "Transport",
            "Equids",
            "Livestock",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Odd-toed ungulates",
            "Agriculture",
            "Animals",
            "Fundamental",
            "Mammals",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Lifeforms",
            "Vertebrates",
            "Sciences",
            "Life",
            "Chordates",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "checkrein ligament"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks."
      ],
      "id": "en-checkrein-en-noun-xlnaqJev",
      "links": [
        [
          "strap",
          "strap"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bearing rein"
        },
        {
          "word": "check-rein"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "checkrein"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "checkrein ligament"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "check",
        "3": "rein"
      },
      "expansion": "check + rein",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "check + rein",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "checkreins",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "checkrein (plural checkreins)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Horse tack"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "strap",
          "strap"
        ],
        [
          "horse",
          "horse"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "bearing rein"
    },
    {
      "word": "check-rein"
    }
  ],
  "word": "checkrein"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-18 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.