saddleclothn.
/ˈsadlˌklɒθ/, U.S. /ˈsæd(ə)lˌklɔθ/, /ˈsæd(ə)lˌklɑθ/ †(a) In early use: = foot-cloth n. 2, housing n.2 2a. Obsolete. (b) A cloth placed on the back of a horse or other animal under the saddle. (c) A cloth used in place of a saddle. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > trappings, housing, or caparison
steed shrouda1300
coverturec1300
trap13..
horse-house1316
attiringa1375
trapping1398
trappera1400
saddlecloth1415
house1463
foot-cloth1480
summock1506
reparelling1513
base1548
furniture1553
coperture1555
housing-cloth1569
caparison1602
footmantlec1610
bear gear1613
horse-furniture1613
bearing gear1616
housing1698
pad-cloth1795
rumbler1849
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle-cloth
paniot1310
saumbuc1330
panel1336
saddle house1431
mantletc1440
horse-cloth1530
saddlecloth?1530
saddle rug1679
hammock-cloth1685
hammock1690
shabracque1809
saddle blanket1817
manta1828
saddle mat1856
numnah1859
numdah1879
1415 Inventory in Archaeologia (1918) 70 88 (MED) ij sadel clothis, dount vn rouge et vn noir.
1464 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 277 Payd for iiij. ȝerdys and iij. quarterys kendalle for a gowne and a sadyll clothe, the yerde ix. d.
1482 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 222 Item,..paied..for ij. yerdes and di. and. di. qrter of blak cloth, for a sadylclow for my Lord.
?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xlviii Spere, male, hode, halter, saddle clothe, sporres.
1572 J. Higgins Huloets Dict. (rev. ed.) at Cart saddle I thinke Dorsuale, Stratum, & Instratum, Be of one signification that is a saddel cloth, or such like, to couer a horse withal.
1631 B. Jonson New Inne iii. i. sig. D7 I could be well content to steale but two girths, And now and then a saddle cloth.
1650 R. Withers tr. O. Bon Descr. Grand Signor's Seraglio i. 11 The Bridles, pectoralls, Cruppers, Saddle Clothes..set so thick with jewels of divers sorts, that the beholders are amazed.
1683 London Gaz. No. 1786/4 A bay Mare, with..a black Saddle, and a green Saddle-Cloth.
1716 J. Perry State of Russia 91 [They] keep themselves warm when they have occasion to sleep, as their manner is, laying such a piece of Wylock..which is their Saddle Cloth, under them for the bed.
1761 tr. Frederician Code II. viii. 422 Thus when a testator has left in legacy a horse with the saddle and saddle-cloth, if the horse die, the saddle and saddle-cloth are not due to the legatary.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 35 I observed them [at Lichfield] making some saddle-cloths.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iv, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 111 The laird..has had his running footman here..to see when the broidered saddle-cloth for his sorrel horse will be ready.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 31 There is no bed like the saddle-cloth.
1867 S. W. Baker Nile Tributaries Abyssinia v. 111 We were requested to mount two superb white hygeens, with saddle-cloths of blue Persian sheep-skins.
1904 St. Nicholas May 596/1 Taking from it her own beautiful little saddle with its..immaculate saddle-cloth, she hastily rigged up a stirrup upon the right side.
1953 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 73 156/1 In the time of Xenophon a genuine saddle, and not merely a saddle-cloth, was known in Greece.
2001 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 6 May (Sports section) 54 The personalized saddle cloths that were distributed by the track to identify the Derby runners.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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