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Definition of Saddle

1. Noun. A seat for the rider of a horse or camel.

2. Verb. Put a saddle on. "Saddle the horses"

3. Noun. A pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle).

4. Verb. Load or burden; encumber. "He saddled me with that heavy responsibility"

5. Noun. Cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins.

6. Verb. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to. "He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend"

7. Noun. A piece of leather across the instep of a shoe.

8. Noun. A seat for the rider of a bicycle.

9. Noun. Posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl.

Definition of Saddle

1. n. A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.

2. v. t. To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.

3. n. A ridge connected two higher elevations; a low point in the crest line of a ridge; a col.

Definition of Saddle

1. Noun. A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal ¹

2. Noun. An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal ¹

3. Noun. A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle etc ¹

4. Noun. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone ¹

5. Noun. A ridge, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills ¹

6. Noun. The raised floorboard in a doorway. ¹

7. Noun. (construction) A small tapered/sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains. ¹

8. Verb. To put a saddle on an animal. ¹

9. Verb. To get into a saddle. ¹

10. Verb. (''idiomatically'') To burden or encumber. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Saddle

1. to put a saddle (a leather seat for a rider) on [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]

Medical Definition of Saddle

1. 1. A seat for a rider, usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle. 2. A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc. 3. A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc. 4. A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. 5. A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support. 6. The clitellus of an earthworm. 7. The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors. Saddle bar, any thin plicated bivalve shaell of the genera Placuna and Anomia; so called from its shape. Synonym: saddle oyster. Origin: OE. Sadel, AS. Sadol; akin to D. Zadel, G. Sattel, OHG. Satal, satul, Icel. Sothull, Dan. & Sw. Sadel; cf. Russ. Siedlo; all perh. Ultimately from the root of E. Sit. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Saddle

sadcase sadcases sadcore sadded sadden saddened saddening saddens sadder saddest

saddhu saddhus sadding saddish saddle (current term) saddle-backed saddle-bag saddle-bags saddle-billed stork saddle-billed storks

saddle-bow saddle-bows saddle-cloth saddle-cloths saddle-point saddle-shaped saddle-sore saddle-tree saddle-trees

Literary usage of Saddle

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

1. The Horse of America in His Derivation, History and Development by John Hankins Wallace (1897)
"THE AMERICAN saddle HORSE. The saddle gaits come only from the pacer—saddle gaits cultivated three hundred years ago—Markham on the saddle gaits—The ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... by patient climbing, the saddle we had in view was attainable. ... saddle, some 7160 feet above sea-level, as I made it out. ..."

3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1885)
"FOUR BOHEMIANS IN saddle. WE sat on a brown, sunlit slope in the high hills that ... "Let us saddle our horses, and try a gallop over this high table land. ..."

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