Surcingle

A blanket fastened on with a surcingle was the favorite seat. ❋ John Allan (1914)

I ran my hand underneath his surcingle, scratching away a trace of dried sweat. ❋ Diane Lee Wilson (2006)

“Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad,” he said, addressing the animal; ❋ Unknown (2004)

One end is attached to the broad surcingle, which fastens together the complicated gear of the recado, or saddle used in the Pampas; the other is terminated by a small ring of iron or brass, by which a noose can be formed. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He tightened the surcingle around his mount's chest, hiked up his kilts and swung up with the limber movement of a much younger man. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (2001)

Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring. ❋ Janet Dailey (1983)

This presses across the thighs just above the knees, and affords great additional security, and a surcingle is strapped over the seat of the saddle as a further assistance to the girths. ❋ Robert B. Booth (N/A)

The blanket has a band, also stays and straps, the use of which does away with the surcingle and affords a most efficient protection for the horse, and may be easily worn under harness in wet weather or at other times, when desirable. ❋ Various (N/A)

Hitherto a surcingle had served to hold the blanket upon his back, but this contraption had TWO surcingles and a stiff leather strap to boot, which Peggy's strong hands pulled tighter than any straps had ever before been pulled around him. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The Baron's beard was peaked; and his mustache, stiff and stumpy, projected horizontally like those of a Tom Cat; he twirled the one, he stroked the other, he drew the buckle of his surcingle a thought tighter, and strode down the great staircase three steps at a stride. ❋ Various (N/A)

On the back of each great beast was a massive, straw-filled pad secured by a rope passing surcingle-wise around its body. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)

He would get on his hands and knees, place a surcingle around his body under his arms for his rider to hold on by, and then proceed to buck. ❋ Edward C. Taylor (N/A)

"I want to dismount," said Frank; and he grasped the surcingle rope as the elephant sank jerkily to its knees. ❋ Gordon Casserly (N/A)

Then he sat down and made a copy of it, idealizing it by injecting a few "betterments," then trotted it out for inspection with tail and mane plaited and bells on its patent-leather surcingle. ❋ Hopkins Moorhouse (N/A)

He threw the stirrup over the top of the saddle and fished under the now quiet horse for her dangling surcingle. ❋ Dell H. Munger (N/A)

In South America a ring fixed to the surcingle is used; while in Guatemala and Costa Rica the reata is tied to the end of the horse's tail! ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)

The surcingle, or, _Californicè_, the _cinch_, is a broad strip of hair-cloth with a padded ring at either end through which you reeve and fasten with a half-hitch stout straps sewed to other rings under the saddle-flaps. ❋ Various (N/A)

In return for which brutal assault we expected to find that the Doctor and his friends removed the surcingle and baggage-straps from the jaw-breaker's horse, tied him to a tree with the latter, and with the former flogged his black shoulders till he cried _peccavi_, and promised reform. ❋ Various (N/A)