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Definition of Offsaddle
1. Verb. Remove the saddle from. "They unsaddled their mounts"
Definition of Offsaddle
1. Verb. (transitive chiefly South Africa) To unsaddle; remove the saddle from. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Offsaddle
Literary usage of Offsaddle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1846)
"On stopping by the wayside to offsaddle, it is necessary to ' knee-halter' the
horse before turning him to browse, or he will very likely leave his rider in ..."
2. South African missions by Charles Hamilton Malan (1876)
"The Lord bless our meeting, as also my halt to offsaddle. I saluted a pleasant-looking
white man ... I was told a Christian lived where I should offsaddle. ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
"... An' some graves by a barb-wire fence; An' a Dutchman I've fought 'oo might
give Me a job were I ever inclined, To look in an' offsaddle an' live Where ..."
4. The English Illustrated Magazine (1906)
"... to the comprehension of his master, and, after several speeches, he set himself
discontentedly to offsaddle the three sorry- steeds of their cavalcade, ..."
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