a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 31^v Habenatus, reyned.

?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 103 Renede [1483 BL Add. 89074 Renyd], habenatus.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. v. 95 With renit lyonis ȝokkit to thi chayr.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια i. v. 13 Nature hath giuen thee but one tongue, tied with ten Muscles, and reyned with a very strong ligament.

1671 E. Fowler Design Christianity ii. ix. 105 The Reined in and Ruled Faculty.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 168 He approached me with a sort of reined-in Rapture.

1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 167 The poor, mutilated, harnessed, checked, reined-up victim of luxury.

1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. vii. 174 At first acquaintance with the poet, I thought that later in my knowledge of him I should see some phases of the reined-back pose of Woolner's bust, but this I was unable to do.

1961 New Statesman 21 July 92/1 The reined-back rhythms of this verse are especially pleasing.

1999 H. Middleton Grimm's Last Fairytale xiv. 116 A fresh white gelding waited, saddled and reined, with two bags strapped across its haunches.

2000 H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 2 She looked back down her years at school, the reined-in feeling, the stupors of boredom, the teachers in the classrooms like tired lion-tamers.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xlix. f. 114 Though the knyght passe his course, yet it is not his faute, yf the hors be not well reyned: but at the ende of his course, he wylle trymme his hors.

1566 T. Blundeville Bredynge of Horses ii. f. 5^v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe Vegetius also sayth, y^t they [sc. the Parthian horses] be very wel rained.

1671 J. Halfpenny Gentleman's Jocky 98 Over-rank feeding in the Summer, chiefly from two years old upward, doth breed an evil rayned, and a slothful horse.

1767 W. L. Lewis tr. Statius Thebaid II. xii. 1042 His neat Quiver, Sword, and well-rein'd Steed.

1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton I. 123 I mut have 'em all in their places, well reined in, and put together in proper style.

1875 Appletons' Jrnl. 24 Apr. 518/1 She is tall and slight, and carries her head well reined up.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Mar. c4 The crowds that come to the softcore films are ‘well-dressed, well-reined, very sophisticated. We don't get dirty old men in overcoats.’

2004 B. Bergin Loyal to Land vi. 118/2 The more notable horsemen of the ranch gained their stature largely by consistently producing well-reined horses in this process.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxi^v The firste [property of an ass] is to be small mouthed: the seconde to be longe rayned.

1639 P. Massinger Unnaturall Combat iv. ii. sig. H4^v Let his passion worke, and like a hot rein'd horse 'T will quickly tire it selfe.

1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. xlii. 188 He lined all the bitches in the countrey, though before that he was feeble-reined.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 141 A strong bridle, double rayned, wherof one to be of wyer.

1601 J. Hayward Sanctuarie Troubled Soule (rev. ed.) iii. 137 It is like vnto a horse, desirous to runne, & miserably spurred, but soe short reined that hee cannot stirre.

1704 Dict. Rusticum at Bridle Chaff-Halter, a Woman's Bridle is the same, only it's double Rained.

1740 Advt. 15 May in B. Franklin Papers (1960) II. 285 Lent..a Woman's white broadcloth kirb Bridle, double Rein'd.

1821 Times 12 Sept. 1/2 An old saddle and double reined bridle were stolen the same night.

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 395/2 The snaffle..usually called the single-reined bridle.

1899 Century July 869/2 The bridle is nothing but a common, light, single-reined snaffle.

1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 124 He sat quietly, rigidly, his double-reined bridle drawn up snugly in his left hand in a fringed buckskin glove, his right arm hanging straight down.

1998 Carriage Driving Oct.–Nov. 36/4 Classes..included both long reined and in-hand in harness show classes.