Simple past tense and past participle of rein.(verb)
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Use "reined" in a sentence
"WV = "reined" As in "Harper needs to be ___ in and the Liberals are acting like a barnyard full of chickens.""
"For when, in after years, his people sought to curb his tyrannies with a revolt that ended only with his death upon the scaffold, outside this very banqueting house at Whitehall, Charles Stuart learned all too late that a "mettlesome horse" needed sometimes to be "reined," and heard, too late as well, the stern declaration of the Commons of England that"
"It looks at the people, even the lowest and scummiest of them (including Paresh Rawal who bravely plays a middle class businessman who happily looted a Muslim shop and shared in his brother's participative glee in a gang rape) with a kind of reined-in empathy that makes even the seeming perpetrators look like victims."