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 Ford, Sewell

As a saddle swings around on anything but a horse, it is easier to ride bulls and mules with a surcingle.

From Unexplored! by Chaffee, Allen

George now unloosened the long reins which were attached to the heavy surcingle, and after walking the animal two or three times round the circle, suffered him to go free.

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

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

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 Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)