The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary: Being a Compleat System of Horsemanship. Containing I. Directions for the Knowledge of Horses, ... VIII. An Explanation of All Those Terms of Art, Either in the Medicinal Or Chirurgical Practice of Farriers, &c. ... By N. B. PhilipposJ. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington [and 4 others in London], 1726 - 454 pages |
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Page 188 - FALCADE ; a horfe makes falcades when he throws himfelf upon his haunches two or three times, as in very quick corvets ; which is done in forming a flop', and half ftop.
Page 101 - ... they divide, and open into two half ranks, the one wheeling to the right, the other to the left, along the wings of the body, to the rear. Every rank obferves the fame order of firing ; and turning or wheeling from the front to rear, is called a caracol.
Page 142 - The liberty of the aftion and feat of a horfeman ; fo that in all the motions made by the horfe, he does not incline his body more to one fide than to the other, but continues in the middle of the faddie, rearing equally on his Ilirrups, in order to give the horfe the proper and feafonable aids.
Page 51 - Thefe bars fhould be (harp-ridged, and lean ; fince all the fubje&ion a horfe fuffers, proceeds from thofe parts; for if they have not thefe qualities, they will be very little or not at all fenfible, fo that the horfe can never have a good mouth : for if they be flat, round, and infenfible, the...
Page 50 - ... on each fide of the mouth : fo that that part of the gum which lies under, and at the fide of the bars, retains the name of gum. The bars are that part of the mouth upon which the bitt...
Page 50 - BANQUET, is that fmall part of the branch of the bridle that is under the eye, which being rounded like a fmall rod, gathers and joins the extremities of the...
Page 51 - Lob bereits geschmälert: He is as Fine a Horse as can be, but somewhat Slender, and a little Lady-like; and is so Lazy and Negligent in his Walk, as he will Stumble over a Bowling-Green; he Trots like a Cow, and Gallops Low ", and no Action in any of those Actions; But commonly he is Sinewy, and Nervous, and hath a clean Strength, is excellently Winded, and good at Length, to Endure great Travel. (36., p. 53...
Page 56 - HORSE, is that part underneath the lower mandible on the outfide, and above the chin, which bears the curb of the bridle.
Page 204 - QUARTER, is when the hoof has a kind of cleft occafioned by a horfe's carting his quarter, and getting a new one, for then the horn beginning to grow, is uneven and ugly, as alfo bigger and...
Page 240 - ... and in this order muft the horfe continue to go on. To gallop falfe, to difunite, to drag the haunches, to change feet, to go or run upon falfe feet, to gallop upon the falfe foot, is, when the galloper having led with one of the fore legs, whether right or left, does not continue to make that leg always fet out firft, nor to make the hind leg of a fide with the leading leg, to move before it's oppofite hind leg ; that is to fay, the orderly going is interrupted.