Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A girth that binds a saddle, pack, or blanket to the body of a horse.
- noun Archaic The fastening belt on a clerical cassock; a cincture.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A girth for a horse; especially, a girth separate from the saddle and passing around the body of the horse, retaining in place a blanket, a sheet, or the like, by passing over it.
- noun The girdle with which a garment, especially a cassock, is fastened. Compare
cincture . - noun Same as
cauda striati (which see, undercauda ). - To gird or surround with a surcingle, as a horse.
- To secure by means of a surcingle, as a blanket or the saddle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A belt, band, or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.
- noun (Eccl.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or
saddle on an animal - noun a piece of
tack wrapped around the belly of a horse, to use whenlongeing , also know aslungeing ; (roller in UK and Australasia) - noun a girdle to fasten a garment, especially a cassock
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A blanket fastened on with a surcingle was the favorite seat.
With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon John Allan 1914
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I ran my hand underneath his surcingle, scratching away a trace of dried sweat.
Firehorse Diane Lee Wilson 2006
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“Thou maun do without horse-sheet and surcingle now, lad,” he said, addressing the animal;
The Black Dwarf 2004
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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.
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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.
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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.
Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001
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Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring.
Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983
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Taking his saddle and pad from one horse, Ty threw it onto a buckskin and pulled the surcingle through the cinch ring.
Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983
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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.
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On the back of each great beast was a massive, straw-filled pad secured by a rope passing surcingle-wise around its body.
The Jungle Girl Gordon Casserly
john commented on the word surcingle
Another relative of "cingular" is "surcingle", meaning a belt or girth,
and used quite memorably by Emily Dickinson in this poem:
Bees are Black, with Gilt Surcingles --
Buccaneers of Buzz.
Ride abroad in ostentation
And subsist on Fuzz.
Fuzz ordained -- not Fuzz contingent --
Marrows of the Hill.
Jugs -- a Universe's fracture
Could not jar or spill.
- from AWADmail Issue 292
February 4, 2008
chained_bear commented on the word surcingle
"'Mama said you would certainly come up and try it on.'
'There is no need ... Yet I may come up when George and I have finished this surcingle.'
'Then please may we open the epaulette-case?'"
--P. O'Brian, The Commodore, 57
March 16, 2008
bilby commented on the word surcingle
See also wanty.
January 21, 2024