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By the way he has recently had his back checked and teeth done he also wears a flash and running martingale for hacking / jumping.
In this manner I tarred down all the head-stays, but found the rigging about the jib-booms, martingale, and spritsail yard, upon which I was afterwards put, the hardest.— Two Years Before the Mast
Then, as the sailing vessel lurched upon them, the boy noted that the seine-master and the fisherman at the stern of the seine-boat leaped for the martingale shrouds and held them But that instant's delay, as the bark had seemed to be poised upon the wave, had been enough for the Shiner_.— The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries
Besides a halter, a single rein, attached to rather a clumsy bit, is the usual trooper's equipment: to this is attached the inevitable ring-martingale, without which few Federal cavaliers, civil or military, would consider themselves safe I cannot conceive such an anomaly as a thorough Yankee horseman_.— Border and Bastille
The reins, martingale, and whip are composed of solid silver in woven strands.— A Truthful Woman in Southern California

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