surcingle

Example Sentences

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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.

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

Then put a surcingle around his body, and fasten one end of a long strap around the other fore-leg, just above the hoof.

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)

The duke was an old man, of a girth so enormous that he was obliged to wear a broad surcingle as support to his rotund paunch.

From Told by the Death's Head A Romantic Tale by J?kai, M?r

Her body was held in this position by means of a belt around her waist, attached to a surcingle on the horse—both tightly buckled.

From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne