surcingle

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The surcingle is of leather, and fastens in the Mexican style; the girth is also of leather, three and a half inches wide, with a large buckle.

From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Marcy, Randolph Barnes

The saddle was the next slow process—a surcingle, a folded blanket and cinch, a double blanket and cinch, a bag of oats and cinch and, finally, the saddle and rider.

From The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country by Seton, Ernest Thompson

Under this he wore another coat still more ragged, and the whole was belted at the waist with an old surcingle.

From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Garland, Hamlin

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 Greenwood, George

He immediately pulled up his horse, and, dismounting, unstrapped the surcingle of his saddle.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various