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saddle-cloth

saddle-cloth is the alternative spelling of saddlecloth.

Meaning of saddlecloth

Noun

saddlecloth (plural saddlecloths)

  1. A blanket placed under a saddle, a saddle blanket.
    • 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...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
  2. A cloth displaying a racehorse's number.

Forms of saddle-cloth

pluralsaddle-cloths

Questions about saddle-cloth

What is saddle-cloth the alternative spelling of?
Saddle-cloth is the alternative spelling of saddlecloth.

Words near saddle-cloth in the dictionary

  1. saddle-billed storks
  2. saddle-bow
  3. saddle-bows
  4. saddle-bum
  5. saddle-bums
  6. saddle-cloth
  7. saddle-cloths
  8. saddle-oxforded
  9. saddle-shaped tricholoma
  10. saddle-shaped tricholomas
  11. saddle-shoed

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