Seined vs Reined - What's the difference?
seined | reined |
(seine)
A long net having floats attached at the top and sinkers (weights) at the bottom, used in shallow water for catching fish.
* 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 169:
(label) To use a seine, to fish with a seine.
(rein)
A strap or rope attached to the bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
(figurative) An instrument or means of curbing, restraining, or governing.
* Milton
To direct or stop a horse by using reins.
* Chapman
To restrain; to control; to check.
* Shakespeare
A kidney.
*, II.12:
*:a man subject to these like imaginations.
*1611 , (King James Bible), :
*:He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins .
The inward impulses; the affections and passions, formerly supposed to be located in the area of the kidneys.
*Bible, Proverbs xxiii. 16
*:My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
*Bible, Revelations ii. 23
*:I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.
As verbs the difference between seined and reined
is that seined is (seine) while reined is (rein).seined
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* * * *seine
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Noun
(Seine fishing) (en noun)- They were too busy hauling at ropes, collectively drawing a large seine across the bay before them – and singing their hearts out.
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* English words not following the I before E except after C rule ----reined
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*rein
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Etymology 1
(etyl) reyne, from (etyl) resne (Modern French .Noun
(en noun)- Let their eyes rove without rein .
Verb
(en verb)- He mounts and reins his horse.
- Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.