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
- You can sit on the saddle.
- He is riding a horse without a saddle.
- The seatpost links the frame to the saddle.
- It is held right over the pommel of the saddle.
- Pigskin is used in apparel and on seats of saddles.
- My butt hurts whenever sitting on the saddle on a bike.
- He asserted that it was a creaking saddle making the sounds.
- The girth of the horse's saddle snaps and he falls to the ground.
- The saddle strap is a fastener used to attach a saddle on a horse.
- It helps to protect the rest of the saddle from the sweat of the horse.