(figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
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The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.
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Let their eyes rove without rein.
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1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: