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Title: The sportsman's dictionary : or, The gentleman's companion: for town and country. Containing full and particular instructions for riding, hunting, fowling ... With the various methods to be observed in breeding and dieting of horses ... And the manner of curing their various diseases and accidents
Year: 1778 (1770s)
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Subjects: Horses Sports
Publisher: London : Printed for Fielding and Walker
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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he fore part of a horfeshead, extending from under the ears, alongthe interval, between the eye-brows, downto his nofe. CHANFRAIN-BLANCE. See Star,or Blaze. CHANGE A Horse, or change Hand ;is to turn, or bear the horfes head from onehand to another, from the right to the left,or from the left to the right. You fhould never change your horfe,without pufhing him forward upon the turn ;and after the turn, pufti him on ftraight, inin order to a ftop. This horfe changes from the right with anugly grace. See Entier, Nails, Walk,and a Passade of five times. CHANNEL OF a Horse, is the hollowbetween the tv/o bars, or the nether jawbones, in wliich the tongue is lodged: forthis purpofe it ftiould be large enough, thatit be not preffed with the bitt-mouth, whichfliould always have a liberty in the middleof it. CHAPE, (with hunters) the tip at theend of a foxs tail; fo called, as the tailitfelf is termed breach, drag, or bnifh. CHAPELET, is a couple of ftirrup- leathersj JPla&.Zn CfiiVt Traps
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CHE leathers, mounted each of them with a ftir-;rup, and joined at top in a fort of leatherbuckle, called the head of the chapelet, bywhich they are made .fail to the pommel of■ the faddle,, after being adjufted to the riderslength and bare : they are ufed, to avoidthe trouble of taking up or letting down theftirrups, every time that a gentleman mountson a different horfe and faddle, and to fup-ply the want in the academy faddles,. whichhave no ftirrups to them. CHAPERON OF A BiTT-MouTH, is aword only ufed for fcatch-mouths, and allothers that are not cannon-mouths, fignify-ing the end of the bitt that joins to thebranch, juft by the banqiret. In fcatch-mouths the chaperon is round,but in others it is oval j and the fame part thatin fcatched, and other mouths, is called cha-peron, is in cannon-mouths called, froncean. CHARBON, (/■. e. coal,) is an obfoleteFrench word ; fignifying that little blackfpot or mark, that remains after a largefpot, in the cavity of the corner teeth of ah

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