cantle

I carried ration water for traveling in a plastic tube in back of my saddle cantle and watered her in my hat.

I remember his standing in front of the cabin with his horse saddled, his gun in his scabbard, and his bedroll tied on back of the cantle.

If perchance a trot, it was a mere shog, comfortable enough with a short seat and high cantle.

Even a thoroughly accomplished horsewoman cannot ride easily in a saddle that is too short from pommel to cantle, or too narrow in the seat.

A cheap laugh may thus be obtained by challenging a stranger to count these balls accurately; for the missing cantle, being turned towards the river, is quite invisible from the bridge itself.