Both Uses of
girth
in
The Horse and His Boy
- For the next few minutes Shasta was at work, very cautiously to avoid jingling, while the Horse said things like, "Get that girth a bit tighter," or "You'll find a buckle lower down," or "You'll need to shorten those stirrups a good bit."†
Chpt 1 *
- And wherever you looked you could see people tightening girths, putting on helmets, drawing swords, and throwing cloaks to the ground.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(girth) the distance around something such as a body or a tree
or:
a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place