surcingle

If so, this method was improved on during the next half-century, for the rope is now attached to a surcingle.

She had risen and with both hands had laid hold upon the crosspiece of my main surcingle and was striving to drag me inside.

This was usually done on the circus saddle, although some of us could do it on the bareback horse with only a surcingle.

At breakfast the waiters strapped up each boarder with a stout surcingle.

Surcingle, sur′sing-gl, n. a girth or strap for holding a saddle on an animal's back: the girdle of a cassock.