surcingle
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You breathe outdoor air only in high-fenced grass paddocks around which you are driven in surcingle rig by a Cockney groom imported with the pigskin saddles and British condition powders.
From Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle by Sewell Ford
Thence to the banks where rev'rend bards repose, They led him soft; each rev'rend bard arose; And Milbourn chief, deputed by the rest, Gave him the cassock, surcingle, and vest.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
A broad surcingle of woollen webbing keeps the whole in place.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird
Tie a strap or rope around the back part of the neck and a surcingle around the body.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The other horse bore an ordinary saddle, over which was thrown a light blue merino blanket several times folded, and secured to the saddle by a gayly-woven surcingle.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
