Word Meanings - CHECKREIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein.

• Preventable
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• Shortclothes
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• Callisthenic
  Alt. of Callisthenics
• Short-spoken
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
• Checking
  of Check
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Checkroll
  A list of servants in a household; -- called also chequer roll.
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• Horsehair
  A hair of a horse, especially one from the mane or tail; the hairs of the mane or tail taken collectively; a fabric or tuft made of such hairs.
• Horse power
  The power which a horse exerts.
• Looper
  An instrument, as a bodkin, for forming a loop in yarn, a cord, etc.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Preventative
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• Checkage
  The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list.
• HORSEGUARDS
  A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign. The Horse Guards, a name given to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehal

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