saddle
EnglishEdit
The Homer Saddle (sense 5) in Fiordland, New Zealand. The road to Milford Sound goes through the Homer Tunnel beneath it.
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (instrumental suffix). Cognate with Scots sadil, Saterland Frisian Soadel, West Frisian seal, Dutch zadel, Low German Sadel, German Sattel, Danish sadel, Swedish sadel, Icelandic söðull, Russian седло́ (sedló).
NounEdit
saddle (plural saddles)
- A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)
- A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]
- 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy ni the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 272:
- Certainly, in the gravy soups, turbot, hare, roast saddles, cabinet puddings, boiled eggs at tea-time and bread and butter and meat paste with the morning tray, one tasted one's own decadence[.]
- 1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual (5th edition)
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 483:
- With Lizzie leading, they scrambled quickly over several false peaks towards the saddle.
- 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society 2010, p. 483:
- (mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially in Australia.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- (construction) A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
- A saddle shoe.
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
- 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'
'OK, Peter... let's see how those feet have grown.'
I slipped out of my old shoes and stood up.
- 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'
- 1972, Judy Blume, Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (page 56)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
seat on an animal
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harness saddle on an animal
seat on a bicycle etc
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cut of meat
low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills
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raised floorboard in a doorway
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the clitellus of an earthworm
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Etymology 2Edit
From Middle English sadelen, from Old English sadolian, from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną.
VerbEdit
saddle (third-person singular simple present saddles, present participle saddling, simple past and past participle saddled)
- (transitive) To put a saddle on (an animal).
- To get into a saddle.
- (transitive) To burden or encumber.
- He has been saddled with the task of collecting evidence of the theft.
- They went shopping and left me saddled with two children to look after.
TranslationsEdit
to put a saddle on
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to get into a saddle
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to burden
See alsoEdit
DescendantsEdit
- → Japanese: サドル (sadoru)