surcingle
Americannoun
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a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
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a beltlike fastening for a garment, especially a cassock.
noun
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a girth for a horse which goes around the body, used esp with a racing saddle
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the belt worn with a cassock
verb
Etymology
Origin of surcingle
1350–1400; Middle English surcengle < Middle French, equivalent to sur- sur- 1 + cengle belt < Latin cingulum; see cingulum
Example Sentences
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Her body was held in this position by means of a belt around her waist, attached to a surcingle on the horse—both tightly buckled.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
When girthed tie the string surcingle over the saddle; besides holding the reins, it now prevents the flaps flying up.
From Hints on Horsemanship, to a Nephew and Niece or, Common Sense and Common Errors in Common Riding by Greenwood, George
When the horse has hopped for as long as you think necessary to tire him, buckle a common single strap roller or surcingle on his body tolerably tight.
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 Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
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
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 Rarey, J. S. (John Solomon)
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