saddle

IPA: sˈædʌɫ

noun

  • A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
  • A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
  • Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”)
  • A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
  • The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
  • (by extension)
  • Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
  • Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
  • Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
  • A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
  • A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
  • (construction)
  • A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
  • The raised floorboard in a doorway.
  • (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
  • (engineering) An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
  • (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
  • (chiefly Australia, mining) Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”)
  • (geometry) Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”)
  • (lutherie)
  • The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
  • A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
  • (nautical) A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  • (zoology)
  • The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
  • The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
  • In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
  • (originally and chiefly Canada, US)
  • A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
  • Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)

verb

  • (transitive)
  • To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
  • To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
  • (figuratively)
  • To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
  • (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
  • Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
  • (archaic) To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
  • (obsolete, rare) To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
  • (woodworking) To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
  • (obsolete)
  • To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
  • (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) Often followed by up.
  • To put a saddle on an animal.
  • Of a person: to get into a saddle.
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Examples of "saddle" in Sentences

  • Cowboys could pack it in saddle bags and snack on it while mounted.
  • The saddle is not a destination but rather a strategic place for planning.
  • A saddle made by the Mexicans in California is called the _California saddle_.
  • Ranging through those wide-open spaces on foot or in the saddle is the essence of freedom.
  • That night she cooked what she referred to as the saddle, with some corn and a few chilies they had brought from El Paso.
  • I have used the in-lay bark, modified cleft, the cleft, and what I call a saddle graft, bevelling two sides of the stock and splitting the scion, thus slipping the split scion down over the prepared stock.

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