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English translation: Waist

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French term or phrase:	Enfourchure
English translation:	Waist
Entered by:	Rosemary Harvey

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12:04 Nov 18, 2005

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Sports / Fitness / Recreation / Details about a saddle for horse riding

French term or phrase: Enfourchure

Someone is measuring the dimensions of a saddle tree, including the width, the height of the cantle etc. They also measure the "enfourchure et les écarts de pointes". I'm not entirely sure of the exact word in English.

Rosemary Harvey KudoZ activity Questions: 77 (none open) (1 without valid answers) (2 closed without grading) Answers: 8
Local time: 20:04

Waist

Explanation:
The part of the saddle where you sit is called the 'seat' and just above it 'enfourchure' is called the 'waist'

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Rachel Davenport
Local time: 21:04

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Thanks for this answer. The websites you provided were very useful - I'll be able to use them to help me with other areas of the translation and to check terms that I have already found
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Waist

Rachel Davenport

crotch or saddle point

Lisa Laplante

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11 mins confidence:

crotch or saddle point

Explanation:
I got multiple Google hits for this; the best one is below. It's in both French and English.

Reference: http://www.dsc.gc.ca/asp/passerelle.asp?hr=/fr/pip/bcph/docu...
Reference: http://www.sdc.gc.ca/asp/gateway.asp?hr=en/hip/odi/documents...

Lisa Laplante
United States
Local time: 15:04
Native speaker of:

English

1 hr confidence:

Waist

Explanation:
The part of the saddle where you sit is called the 'seat' and just above it 'enfourchure' is called the 'waist'

Reference: http://www.saddlery.biz/sitepage/main.asp?sitepages=SaddleFi...
Reference: http://arsonery.com/produits/p6.html

Rachel Davenport
Local time: 21:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 16

Grading comment

Thanks for this answer. The websites you provided were very useful - I'll be able to use them to help me with other areas of the translation and to check terms that I have already found

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