surcingle

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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

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

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

This may be overcome by fastening it to a suspender attached to a surcingle or passed over the body and attached to the opposite leg.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry