girths

I did not know this particular "bronc," and while tightening the girths was all the while remembering a proverb which says, "He that would venture nothing must not get on horseback."

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

· thongs of leather or rope called girths which hold the pack saddle on the animal's back.

Chapter 5 1977

For never horse could throw him while the saddle-girths would stand,

Archive 2010-05-01 Blue Tyson 2010

He smiled back and went over to the fallen beast, letting go the girths of the saddle and getting the head straightened out.

Jack London's Short Story: Planchette 2010

Isolated for nearly a millennium, Icelandic horses have adapted to the harsh local environment with squat legs, wide girths and thick, furry manes.

Take Monday Off: Iceland Dennis K. Berman 2011

Backstage is littered with wigs, glitter, and silicone accoutrements of varying colors, lengths, and girths.

Elena Azzoni: How A Lesbian Beauty Queen Spent A Year Dating Men Elena Azzoni 2011

She leaned against Dolly's neck while he tightened the girths.

Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

Backstage is littered with wigs, glitter, and silicone accoutrements of varying colors, lengths, and girths.

Elena Azzoni: How A Lesbian Beauty Queen Spent A Year Dating Men Elena Azzoni 2011

Chance, innovation, individual initiative, creativity, freedom to choose, etc; all that good-sounding stuff, and get people in sharp suits and nice ties and slim girths to do it.

Matthew Yglesias » Doing It With Twitter 2009

Only five of the 54 potentially habitable celestial bodies are close to the size of Earth, while the rest approach the gassy girths of Neptune or Jupiter, Borucki said.

NASA Spots 54 Potentially Life-Friendly Planets AP 2011