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  • noun Alternative spelling of saddlecloth.

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Examples

  • The saddle and saddle-cloth were innocent of bur or sticker; the back was smooth and unbroken.

    Jack London's Short Story - Planchette 2010

  • “Zín o takaltú tú bi-bar” = carry within saddle and saddle-cloth!

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It is possible to protect it with the saddle-cloth.

    On Horsemanship 2007

  • 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.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • 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

  • 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.

    Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

  • 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.

    Around the World in 80 Days 2003

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