Horse Riders

bainbrig | 08:55 Mon 22nd Oct 2018 | Sport

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Horse riders (if we've got any on Answerbank...)

What are the terms for pulling up a horse? I mean when you're riding, and stop, is there a term like 'reining in' or similar?

Ta.

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tamborine

^fall off

tamborine

"....You were the swan-necked one who rode
Along the beetling Beeny Crest,
And, reining nigh me,
Would muse and eye me,..."

reigning nigh me above means the rider has slowed the horse beside the poet,

bainbrig

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Prudie: I tried to answer you before, but it got washed away.

Hardy was writing that line in about 1912, so not middle-English - any clumsiness was his choice of phrasing rather than how our ancestors spoke a century ago.

AuntLydia

It got washed away because you called people who helped you toerags.

bainbrig

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Some misunderstandings on this site are genuine, some are mischevious; I am long enough in the tooth and hopefully have picked up a little wisdom with the years to recognise the difference.

And, like most people, if I suspect mickey-taking, I will react to it.

I try and react differently to genuine misunderstandings, but if people persist in reading my questions or comments and for no good reasons take the wrong end of the stick, I might get a tad exasperated.

Wouldn’t you?

bainbrig

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Tamborine. Thanks for your input, although I think you might have missed my clarifications.

I do know precisely what the poet meant. What I’ve been asking for is alternative ways of writing the line ‘reining nigh me’.

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AuntLydia

I answered your questions over and over. I gave you examples, gave you alternatives to the phrase and explained in laymans terms what 'reining in' was. At no time did I take the mickey or be insulting towards you. You on the other hand called me and a few other that tried to help you 'Toe Rags'. Your reply was removed by either a moderator or the Ed.

bainbrig

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And the essential difference between me and you, lydia, is that I often doubt whether I am right. You, on the other hand, have absolute faith in your brilliance.