Crossword-Solution: TERRETS 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The moment I appeared on the steps, "In with you, Frank--in with you," he exclaimed, disengaging the hand-reins from the terrets into which they had been thrust, "I have been waiting here these five minutes.

How could she halt when she had not yet started? She freed the second billet, tore the reins through the terrets, and bunched the reins anyhow in her left hand.

After this, the reins are taken from the terrets, where they were previously placed, and the horse is ready.

The reins can also be run through the head terrets or loops on the top of the wheelers’ heads, but if this is done it is better to use a bearing-rein, because, if the horse shakes his head up and down, he will inevitably jerk the leader in the mouth.

These terrets have been almost entirely done away with, as, if the leaders pull, they put a great strain on the wheelers’ heads, and if the latter throw their heads up and down to any great extent, they continually jerk the leader’s mouths, [Sidenote: Objection to lead reins passing through head terrets.] whereas by passing the lead reins through the ring on the throat-lash of the wheeler there is almost a straight pull from the leaders’ mouths to the terrets on the pads of the wheelers.