Definitions for surcingle

surcingle sur·cin·gle

Spelling: [sur-sing-guh l]
IPA: /ˈsɜrˌsɪŋ gəl/

Surcingle is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 492 anagrams from letters in surcingle (cegilnrsu).

Definitions for surcingle

noun

  1. a belt or girth that passes around the belly of a horse and over the blanket, pack, saddle, etc., and is buckled on the horse's back.
  2. a beltlike fastening for a garment, especially a cassock.

Origin of surcingle

1350-1400; Middle English surcengle Middle French, equivalent to sur- sur-1 + cengle belt Latin cingulum; see cingulum

Examples for surcingle

You intend cutting your surcingle and running away, little coward?

Each had a rug thrown over her horse, made fast with a surcingle, on which she sat, and appeared quite comfortable.

The colonel had an old cavalry sword attached to a surcingle thrown over his shoulders.

To this I was securely bound by a long strap resembling a surcingle.

The surcingle should lie neatly over the girths, and have an equal bearing with them.

And the time, during which Monty arrived and dismounted, I killed by unloosening girth and surcingle.

Can't you get a bit of string and tie up the surcingle Tommy?

At last he began to back, and Ned and I let go of the surcingle.

When he takes no heed of it, fold it up on his back and girth it on with the surcingle.

It now occurred to me that the bandage, or surcingle, which enveloped me, was unique.

Word Value for surcingle
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