The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository, Volume 2 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

REINS

.—The reins of a horse are the parts where the kidnies are seated; and the word is generally used in a synonymous sense with loins. When a disorder arises, or a defect is observed, in these parts, it may be supposed to have originated in some short and sudden turn in a narrow stall; carrying too heavy a weight, or drawing too large a load. Whenever such injury is sustained, a difficulty of staling, partial dribblings, or the urine very high-coloured, and tinged with blood, will soon point out the seat of the complaint.