English word senses marked with lifeform category "Horse tack"
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Total 125 word senses
- English saddle (Noun) Any of several saddles which, unlike a Western saddle, do not have a horn, but have padded panels so do not need a separate saddle blanket.
- barb (Noun) The sciaenid fish Menticirrhus americanus, found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- barb (Noun) Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
- bearing rein (Noun) A checkrein.
- bellyband (Noun) A band of canvas used to strengthen a sail.
- bit (Noun) A small fraction above a whole number.
- bit (Noun) A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.
- bit (Noun) A unit of measure for information entropy.
- bit lifter (Noun) piece of horse tack that lifts (raises) a bit in the horse's mouth
- blinder (Noun) A bag or cloth put over the head of a difficult horse while it is being handled or mounted.
- blinder (Noun) A screen attached to a horse's bridle preventing it from being able to see things to its side.
- blinder (Noun) An exceptional performance.
- blinder (Noun) A bright light used to blind the audience temporarily during a scene change.
- blinder (Verb) To fit (a horse) with blinders.
- bradoon (Noun) A type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle in conjunction with a curb bit.
- breastgirth (Noun) A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle to slip backwards.
- breastplate (Noun) A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
- breaststrap (Noun) A piece of horse tack for preventing the saddle from slipping backwards.
- breechen (Noun) A rope used to limit the recoil of a cannon on a ship
- breeching (Noun) The ceremony of dressing a boy in trousers for the first time.
- breeching (Noun) A conduit through which exhaust gases are conducted to a chimney.
- breeching (Noun) A rope used to secure a cannon.
- breeching (Noun) A component of horse harness or tack, enabling the horse to hold back a vehicle.
- bridle (Noun) The headgear with which a horse is directed and which carries a bit and reins.
- bridle (Noun) A mooring hawser.
- bridle (Noun) A piece in the interior of a gunlock which holds in place the tumbler, sear, etc.
- bridle (Verb) To hold up one's head proudly or affectedly.
- bridoon (Noun) A type of snaffle bit, with small rings, usually used on a double bridle in conjunction with a curb bit.
- browband (Noun) A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.
- calk (Verb) To copy (a drawing) by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt stylus or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held.
- calkin (Noun) A calk (on a horseshoe).
- cannon bit (Noun) A smooth round bit for a horse.
- canon bit (Noun) The part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
- cantle (Noun) A splinter, slice, or sliver broken off something.
- cantle (Noun) The top of the head.
- cantle (Noun) On many styles of sporran, a metal arc along the top of the pouch, usually fronting the clasp.
- cantle (Verb) To cut out from.
- caparison (Verb) To dress up a horse or elephant with ornamental coverings.
- cavesson (Noun) A part of a horse's bridle that consists of a headstall with a noseband. When a martingale is used, it is attached to the horse's head at the cavesson.
- checkrein (Noun) A strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to horses' necks.
- cheekpiece (Noun) A piece of armour, or the bridle of a horse, that protects the cheek.
- chewing ball (Noun) A medicinal ball attached to a horse's bit so that the chewing will improve its appetite.
- cinch (Noun) An RCA connector.
- crinet (Noun) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
- crownpiece (Noun) A strap in the bridle that goes over the horse's head just behind the animal's ears.
- crupper (Noun) A strap, looped under a horse's tail, used to stop a saddle from slipping.
- curb (Noun) A riding or driving bit for a horse that has rein action which amplifies the pressure in the mouth by leverage advantage placing pressure on the poll via the crown piece of the bridle and chin groove via a curb chain.
- curb bit (Noun) A type of bit used on a bridle, which works by leverage and has shanks and a curb chain.
- detack (Verb) To remove the tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) from a horse.
- double bridle (Noun) A Weymouth bridle, which uses both a bradoon, held by a sliphead, and a curb bit, and is used with two reins.
- doubletree (Noun) a device that connects two horses to a wagon or other implement. The tugs of a harness are connected to a singletree, two of which are connected to a doubletree, which, in turn, is connected to the implement.
- fork (Noun) The upper front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- girth (Noun) A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
- hackamore (Noun) A kind of bridle with no bit.
- halter (Noun) A halter top.
- hame (Noun) Part of the harness that fits round the neck of a draught horse that the reins pass through.
- haulm (Noun) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
- headcollar (Noun) A bitless headpiece for leading or tying up a horse.
- headstall (Noun) A phorbeia.
- horse collar (Noun) A part of a horse's harness that is used to distribute the load around its neck and shoulders when pulling a wagon or plough.
- hunting whip (Noun) A whip with a hooked horn handle (that can be used for opening gates), a short shaft or stock, and a long leather thong with a silk or cord lash.
- hunting-crop (Noun) A hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
- jaquima (Noun) Synonym of hackamore (“type of bridle”)
- kimblewick (Noun) A type of bit that has bit shanks, D rings, and a curb chain
- longe (Noun) A long rope or flat web line, more commonly referred to as a longe line, approximately 20-30 feet long, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse and used to control the animal while longeing.
- longe line (Noun) A rope-like piece of equipment, usually 20 meters or longer in length, attached to the bridle, longeing cavesson, or halter of a horse to provide control while longeing.
- lunge line (Noun) A rope-like piece of equipment, usually 20 feet or longer in length, attached to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or halter of a horse to provide control while lungeing.
- lungeing cavesson (Noun) a special type of halter or headcollar with extra rings on the noseband for attaching a lunge line (or rein)
- lungeing rein (Noun) A piece of cotton or nylon webbing, usually around 25mm wide by about 20 metres (or longer) in length, attached with a swivel to the bridle, lungeing cavesson, or headcollar of a horse to provide control while exercising or training it.
- martingale (Noun) A spar, or piece of rigging that strengthens the bowsprit.
- noseband (Noun) The part of a bridle or halter that goes over the nose of an animal, particularly a horse.
- packsaddle (Noun) A saddle designed to secure and carry goods on the back of an animal.
- piciere (Noun) A poitrel, armor protecting a horse's chest.
- poitrel (Noun) A piece of armor for a horse's chest; the breastplate of a horse's armour or harness.
- poitrinal (Noun) Synonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”)
- poitrine (Noun) Chest, bosom, especially of a woman.
- pommel (Noun) The bat used in the game of knurr and spell or trap ball.
- rearing bit (Noun) A bit designed to prevent a horse from lifting the head when rearing.
- rein (Noun) A strap or rope attached to a bridle or bit, used to control a horse, animal or young child.
- riding halter (Noun) A type of rope halter specifically designed to be used for riding horses. It is considered a type of bitless bridle. Ithas two rings set low on the noseband for the purpose of attaching reins. Horse control is achieved by direct pressure on the nose.
- roller (Noun) Anything that rolls.; A rolling pin
- saddle (Noun) A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.; A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
- saddle (Noun) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
- saddle (Noun) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- saddle (Noun) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
- saddle blanket (Noun) a blanket that is placed under a saddle as a cushion and to protect the horse's back.
- saddle bow (Noun) The front part of the saddle that is arched up like a bow.
- saddle pad (Noun) A pad placed under a saddle on a horse, like a saddle blanket but thicker.
- saddlecloth (Noun) A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.
- scatch (Noun) A stilt.
- shabrack (Noun) The saddlecloth of a cavalry horse.
- shaft bow (Noun) Part of a horse harness, an arch from shaft to shaft over the horse's shoulders.
- shank (Noun) The metal part on a curb bit that falls below the mouthpiece, which length controls the severity of the leverage action of the bit, and to which the reins of the bridle are attached.
- sidesaddle (Noun) The technique of riding a horse with both legs on the same side of the horse.
- snaffle (Noun) A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and bars and corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.
- snaffle (Noun) Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.
- snaffle (Verb) To clutch by the bridle.
- snaffle (Verb) To grab or seize; to snap up.
- snaffle (Verb) To purloin, or obtain by devious means.
- stirrup (Noun) A ring or hoop suspended by a rope or strap from the saddle, for a horseman's foot while mounting or riding.
- stirrup (Noun) Any piece shaped like the stirrup of a saddle, used as a support, clamp, etc.; A portable, flexible ladder-like device used in climbing.
- stirrup (Noun) A rope secured to a yard, with a thimble in its lower end for supporting a footrope.
- stirrup (Noun) A bent rebar wrapped around the main rebars to reinforce against shear stress.
- stirrup iron (Noun) The metal hoop on a stirrup, in which a horserider's foot is inserted when mounted in the saddle.
- straddle (Verb) To consider or favor two apparently opposite sides; to be noncommittal.
- straddle (Verb) To fire successive artillery shots in front of and behind of a target, especially in order to determine its range (the term "bracket" is often used instead).
- straddle (Verb) To stand with the ends staggered; said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
- straddle (Noun) An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with put and call options on the same security at the same strike price, giving a non-directional position sensitive to volatility.
- surcingle (Noun) A piece of tack wrapped around the belly of a horse, to use when longeing.
- swell (Noun) The front brow of a saddle bow, connected in the tree by the two saddle bars to the cantle on the other end.
- tack room (Noun) A room used for storing horse tack and related accessories, usually situated near or in a stable.
- tack up (Verb) To prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.)
- terret (Noun) One of the rings on the top of the harness saddle, through which the reins pass.
- tester (Noun) A cyclist who focuses on success in time trials.
- testiere (Noun) Complete armour for a horse's head.
- trace (Noun) A current-carrying conductive pathway on a printed circuit board.
- trace (Verb) To copy onto a sheet of paper superimposed over the original, by drawing over its lines.
- trammel (Noun) A fishing net that has large mesh at the edges and smaller mesh in the middle
- trammel (Noun) A set of rings or other hanging devices, attached to a transverse bar suspended over a fire, used to hang cooking pots etc.
- trammel (Noun) A kind of shackle used for regulating the motions of a horse and making it amble.
- trammel (Noun) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil.
- trammel (Noun) A beam compass.
- trappings (Noun) Ornamental coverings or harnesses for a horse; caparisons.
- winkers (Noun) blocked leather eye shields attached to a (usually) harness bridle for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards, and partially sideways; blinders in (USA).
- winkers (Noun) a fleece cover wrapped around the cheek strap of a racing bridle to limit the rear vision of racehorses.
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