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- noun Alternative spelling of
saddlecloth .
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Examples
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The saddle and saddle-cloth were innocent of bur or sticker; the back was smooth and unbroken.
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“Zín o takaltú tú bi-bar” = carry within saddle and saddle-cloth!
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It is possible to protect it with the saddle-cloth.
On Horsemanship 2007
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The one that remained to the last in his flight did not forget to carry along with him a piece of blanket that had been a saddle-cloth, and which happened to be lying outside the camp.
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But now, supposing the rider fairly seated, whether bareback or on a saddle-cloth, a good seat is not that of a man seated on a chair, but rather the pose of a man standing upright with his legs apart.
On Horsemanship 2007
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If I could write sonnets at leisure, I would like to chronicle in fourteen lines my sensations on finding myself on a high Turkish saddle, with a pair of fire-shovel stirrups and worsted reins, red padded saddle-cloth, and innumerable tags, fringes, glass-beads, ends of rope, to decorate the harness of the horse, the gallant steed on which I was about to gallop into Syrian life.
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All this I saw while he was dismounting, heavily and wearily, lifting his leg from the saddle-cloth as if with a sore crick in his back.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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They were seated upon coarse wooden saddles, without cushions or stirrups, a fine saddle-cloth alone denoting a chief.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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The Parsee, who was an accomplished elephant driver, covered his back with a sort of saddle-cloth, and attached to each of his flanks some curiously uncomfortable howdahs.
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Provisions were purchased at Kholby, and, while Sir Francis and Mr. Fogg took the howdahs on either side, Passepartout got astride the saddle-cloth between them.
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