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stock saddle

American  
stock saddle British  

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

Etymology

Origin of stock saddle

First recorded in 1885–90

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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.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Dressed in embroidered western shirts, Howard surveyed his ranch from a stock saddle on a cow pony.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

From the consulate he went to a local stock-yard and purchased a miserable, flea-bitten, dejected saddle mule, together with a dilapidated old stock saddle with a crupper, and a well-worn horse-hair hackamore.

From The Pride of Palomar by Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard)

A frying-pan, some salt pork, and a hatchet, made up a light pack, which, with the bedding, I fastened across the stock saddle by means of a rope and a spare packing cinch.

From Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches by Roosevelt, Theodore

And if they have spent their working days astride a stock saddle, you may be sure they are bashful unless they are overbold and impossible.

From Starr, of the Desert by Bower, B. M.

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