saddlecloth

See also: saddle-cloth

English

Etymology

From saddle +‎ cloth.

Noun

saddlecloth (plural saddlecloths)

1. A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.
   • 1936 February, C[ecil] S[cott] Forester [pseudonym; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith], chapter II, in The General, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown, and Company, →OCLC, page 15:

     He rejoined the Twenty-Second Lancers at Cape Town—all the squadrons together again for the first time in two years—and sailed for home. The new King himself reviewed them after their arrival, having granted them time enough to discard their khaki and put on again the glories of blue and gold, schapska and plume, lance pennons and embroidered saddle cloths.

2. A cloth displaying a racehorse's number.

Related terms

• saddle pad

Translations

blanket placed under a saddle — see also saddle blanket

• Azerbaijani: çul, yəhəraltı, loru
• Finnish: satulahuopa (fi)
• German: Satteldecke f
• Portuguese: xairel (pt) m, sobreanca f
• Russian: чепра́к (ru) m (čeprák)
• Sundanese: sebrak
• Swedish: sadeltäcke n, vojlock (sv) c
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: چول (çul)

cloth displaying a racehorse's number

• Finnish: voilokki (fi)

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• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} sjabrak (nl)
• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} ĉabrako
• French: ^{(please verify)} chabraque (fr) f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} caparazón (es) m

See also

• shabrack