saddle horn


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Synonyms for saddle horn

a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

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In fact, I often hang one from the saddle horn opposite the side where my rifle hangs, where it's easily accessible and partly balances out the load, minimizing the saddle's tendency to list to one side.
I hung the sling over one shoulder so I could maneuver the bow as needed with my right hand while holding onto the saddle horn and reins with my left hand.
He crashed onto the saddle horn. His leg slipped through the stirrup and when he fell to the ground, his foot stayed caught.
Hanging from the saddle horn is a beaded bag that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Pendleton Roundup.
I fling my burden of cased takedown recurve and PVC-protected arrows over the saddle horn and clamor onto a moving target eager to overtake his trotting partner.
Ostensibly, the saddle ring was for a leather tong so the carbine could be hooked over a saddle horn. (As someone who rode several thousand miles on horseback when young, I can't imagine having a carbine dangling freely from a saddle horn.) By the way, the saddle ring was a standard fixture until well into the 1920s and then discontinued.
Loose shirts are a hazard because they can catch on the saddle horn when you dismount.
The letter details the theft of "the skull of the worthy Geronimo the terrible" from its tomb at Fort Sill, Okla., and declares that "the skull is now safe inside the Tomb together with his [Geronimo's] well worn femurs, bit and saddle horn."
He's riding a horse, he's got the laptop computer on the saddle horn of the horse and he's got the laser goggles bouncing off the butt of the horse and he stops and sets that all up and does the laser sighting of the enemy on the far ridge line that they're taking fire from, gets precise information, data links it up to the B-52, the B-52 drops GPS-guided bombs.