saddlery
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saddlery (countable and uncountable, plural saddleries)
- (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
- 1792 July, John Naismith, “Statistical Account of the Parish of Hamilton”, in The Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany, volume 16, page 12:
- A good deal of dressed leather is now sent to London, from whence formerly much of what was used here was brought. Saddlery is carried on to some extent.
- 1863, Rachel Henning, letter dated 27 January, 1863, in David Adams (ed.), The Letters of Rachel Henning, Penguin, 1969, p. 124,[1]
- The whole station is engaged in saddlery just now. It is wonderful how soon people learn to do everything for themselves in the bush.
- 1892, G. A. Henty, chapter 6, in The Dash for Khartoum[2], London: Blackie & Son, page 101:
- He resolved that when winter came he would go into one of the regimental workshops and learn a trade, either saddlery or ferriery, which would enable him to earn his living for a time abroad until he saw something better to do.
- 1905, John F. Hume, chapter 6, in The Abolitionists, Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights, 1830-1864[3], New York: Putnam, page 53:
- He traveled almost altogether afoot, observing the strictest economy and supporting himself by occasional jobs of saddlery and harness mending.
- A place of business of a saddler.
- 1892, James Lane Allen, “A Home of the Silent Brotherhood”, in The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky and Other Kentucky Articles[4], New York: Harper, page 185:
- There is a tinker’s shop and a pharmacy; a saddlery, where the broken gear used in cultivating the monastery lands is mended […]
- 1931, Ruth Russell, Lake Front, Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 209,[5]
- Occasional stores pressed close to the wooden walk, and you got the dry smell of hay-and-feed shops or leathery whiffs from saddleries […]
- 1990, Suzanne Carmichael, The Traveler’s Guide to American Crafts West of the Mississippi[6], New York: Dutton, page 145:
- Although there are saddleries in almost every Montana town, only a few have national reputations and are convenient for travelers to visit.
- (uncountable) The inventory and equipment of a saddler; saddles and other horse-riding equipment, or the materials for making them.
- 1787 July, “Irish Parliamentary Intelligence”, in Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, page 387:
- The next article, and the most important article of all to this country, was saddlery. This embraced every part of the leather manufacture, boots, shoes, gloves, &c.
- 1873 August, W. E. Griffis, “Inside Japan”, in Lippincott’s Magazine, volume 12, number 29, page 174:
- […] we notice that the most gorgeous piece of Japanese saddlery is the crupper, which, even on a pack-horse, is painted crimson and gilded gloriously.
- 1904, Rudyard Kipling, “The Army of a Dream”, in Traffics and Discoveries[7], London: Macmillan, pages 272–273:
- A heap of saddlery was thrown in a corner, and from this each man, as he captured his mount, made shift to draw proper equipment […]
- 1911, Archibald Marshall, chapter 10, in The Eldest Son, New York: Dodd, Mead, published 1919:
- He heard the creak of saddlery and the thud of a horse’s hoofs on the hard turf behind him.
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the trade or craft of a saddler
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a place of business of a saddler
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the inventory and equipment of a saddler
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