surcingle

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"Only a blanket and surcingle," said Ray, to his orderly, who was coming up with the heavy saddle and bags.

From Marion's Faith. by King, Charles

The ordinary English trainer thinks that a good mouth may be made in two weeks, by strapping a colt's reins to his surcingle for an hour or two daily, and by longeing with a cavesson.

From Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle by Dodge, Theodore Ayrault

He threw the stirrup over the top of the saddle and fished under the now quiet horse for her dangling surcingle.

From The Wind Before the Dawn by Munger, Dell H.

It is as well, if possible, to teach colts from a very early age to bear a surcingle.

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)

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