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sur⋅cin⋅gle

  [sur-sing-guhl]
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–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, esp. a cassock.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME surcengle < MF, equiv. to sur- sur- 1 + cengle belt < L cingulum; see cingulum
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sur·cin·gle   (sûr'sĭng'gəl)   
n.  

  1. A girth that binds a saddle, pack, or blanket to the body of a horse.

  2. Archaic The fastening belt on a clerical cassock; a cincture.


[Middle English sursengle, from Old French surcengle : sur-, sur- + cengle, belt (from Latin cingula, from cingere, to gird; see cingulum).]
sur'cin'gle v.
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surcingle 
"a girth for a horse," 1390, from O.Fr. surcengle, from sur- "over" + cengle "a girdle," from L. cingulum "girth" (see cinch).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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