surcingle
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This may be overcome by fastening it to a suspender attached to a surcingle or passed over the body and attached to the opposite leg.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
If the pains are violent and continuous, they may be checked by pinching the back or by putting a tight surcingle around the body in front of the udder.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
Over the saddle—folded twice, if not three times—was a large, thick, and fine blanket, as good a one as the rider could afford, which was kept in its place by a broad surcingle.
From Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money by James Parton
The saddle should be kept in its place by the elastic webbing girths, and not, as the common error is—probably from the facility of tightening it—by the hard, unyielding, leather surcingle.
From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by George Greenwood
If he is full of corn and well bred, take advantage of the moment to tie up the off fore-leg to the surcingle, as securely as the other, in a slip loop knot.
From A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid by J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
