Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sore upon a horse's back made by the saddle.
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Examples
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One of the guides had a bottle of liniment for saddle-gall and suggested rubbing it on the saddle.
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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He noticed a pinto with a saddle-gall and told Shoop to turn the horse out on the range.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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Fate has ridden me on a saddle-gall or two, and mixed too much chopped straw in proportion to the beans, but -- there's the game, and
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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