surcingle

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.

It was a magnificent animal--a great bay stallion with a white-blazed face and white forelegs to the knees, its barrel encircled by a broad surcingle of white; and as it came to a sudden stop beside Tan, the Englishman saw that it bore a man and a girl--a tall man and a girl as beautiful as Co-Tan.

They were dark bays with blazed faces and perfect surcingles of white about their barrels.

Then the anthropologist's eye catches a very telling detail: the surcingle between the bull's neck and forelegs, and we learn that this strap signifies the domestication of the animal.

The Nylon Turnout Coat is like a mini horse blanket, complete with crisscross elastic belly straps and surcingle buckles.

Second-year Product Design undergraduate, Annabel Burton, was awarded first place in this year's competition for 'Flex', her reinvention of the buckle on the surcingle, or strap, that fastens round a horse's girth as a new, quick-release device moulded in thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) with a tempered steel spring.