surcingle
Example Sentences
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The girth and surcingle are of leather, with an ordinary woolen saddle-blanket.
From The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions by Randolph Barnes Marcy
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 Dell H. Munger
These descending ropes are carried forward on the sides of the body and tied to the surcingle and to the neck collar.
From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
The surcingle has accustomed him to girths—he leads well, and has learned that when the right rein is pulled he must go to the right, and when the left rein to the left.
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 J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
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 J. S. (John Solomon) Rarey
