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stock saddle

stock saddle

noun

  1. a cowboy's saddle, esp an ornamental one

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of stock saddle1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

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The spongy grips, stock saddle, and wide puncture-resistant tires of Cowboy design did a fine job of gobbling up road vibrations, even on the bumpy bricked roads common in Amsterdam.

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On one particularly long stretch of brick road, that rigid frame sent every vibration straight through the stock saddle and into my sit-bones.

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Howard began slipping out to the barn in the morning with Pollard, and one day when the urge was too strong they got out a stock saddle and cinched it on Seabiscuit.

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For a moment he glanced back over his shoulder, then moved onward in her direction, followed, after a while, by some twenty riders, each with a carbine poised across the horn of his stock saddle.

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The stock saddle, with its high horn and deep seat, was not so different from what I’d been used to—except as to weight.

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