The Encyclopaedia of Sport and Games

Every sport and game of the Edwardian world in four volumes — from angling and ballooning to yachting — written by the people who did them, Theodore Roosevelt on big game among them.

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Hip-strap

A strap passing over a horse's THE TATE LIBRARY, BRIXTON, S. 137 hind-quarters and fastened on either side to the Breeching Body. Also called Quarter-strap.

Jibbing.-Moving restively sideways or backwards.

Jobbing. The letting out on hire of carriages and horses.

Kicking. The old term for the custom of guards to ask travellers for a tip or special fare.

Also called Shelling.

Kicking-strap.-A stout strap hanging loosely behind the horse's hind-quarters and preventing him from throwing up his heels.

Kidney-link. A link on the hames of the horse's collar to which the pole-chains are fixed.

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