MARTINGALE
\mˈɑːtɪŋɡˌe͡ɪl], \mˈɑːtɪŋɡˌeɪl], \m_ˈɑː_t_ɪ_ŋ_ɡ_ˌeɪ_l]\
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A broad strap passing from the noseband to the girth of a horse, between its fore legs, to keep its head down.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A forked strap for holding down a horse's head.
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A stay of a jib boom, or a vertical spar under the bowsprit. martingal.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [French] A strap fastened to a horse’s girth, passing between his fore legs, and thence divided into two thongs attached to the musrole, to prevent a horse from rearing;— a rope leading from the Jib boom end to a short perpendicular spar under the bowsprit end, used to stay down the jib-boom, as the bob-stays do the bowsprit.
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hydromorphic
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