Definition of English saddle

1. Noun. A saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn.

Exact synonyms: English Cavalry Saddle
Generic synonyms: Saddle

Definition of English saddle

1. Noun. Any of several saddles which, unlike a Western saddle, does not have a horn, but has padded panels so does not need a separate saddle blanket ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of English Saddle

English oak
English opening
English partridge
English people
English person
English plantain
English plus
English primrose
English professor
English rhinoplasty
English rose
English roses
English runner bean
English saddle
English saddles
English setter
English sole
English sonnet
English sonnets
English sparrow
English springer
English springer spaniel
English strong ale
English studies
English sweating disease
English system
English teacher
English toy spaniel

Literary usage of English saddle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa: In the by Dixon Denham, Hugh Clapperton, Walter Oudney, Abraham V. Salamé, Robert Brown, Carl Dietrich Eberhard König (1826)
"... with a request to bring my english saddle along with me. We were conducted farther into the interior of his residence than I had ever been before : the ..."

2. The American Horsewoman by Elizabeth Platt Karr (1884)
"This so-called "english saddle" was promptly appreciated, and wherever introduced soon supplanted the old-fashioned one with only two pommels. (Fig. 7. ..."

3. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1863)
"... to examine into the peculiarities of three, the common english saddle, ... and if the Hungarian seat looks uncommonly queer in an english saddle, ..."

4. A Hand-book for Travellers in the Ionian Islands, Greece, Turkey, Asia Minor by John Murray, John Murray (Firm) (1845)
"To proceed with comfort on his journey, the traveller should have an English saddle, as the saddles of the country, whether in the Turkish fashion or made ..."

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