saddle

Meaning

1. 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.
2. A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
3. 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”).
4. A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
5. The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
6. Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
7. Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).
8. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
9. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
10. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
11. The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
12. 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.
13. To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
14. To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
15. To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
16. Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
17. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
18. To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
19. To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
20. 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.
21. To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
22. Often followed by up.
23. To put a saddle on an animal.
24. Of a person: to get into a saddle.
25. A sub-sitio in the sitio of Proper Pudong, barangay of Pudong, Kapangan, Benguet, Philippines.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz (“saddle”). Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting instruments or tools)), though the Oxford English Dictionary says this “presents formal difficulties”. Cognates * Danish sadel * Dutch zadel * German Sattel * Icelandic söðull * Low German Sadel * Russian седло́ (sedló) * Saterland Frisian Soadel * Scots sadil * Swedish sadel * West Frisian seal

Related words

Descendant words

• sadulo(Chichewa) (bor)
• Sattel(German) (cog)
• selo(Ido) (bor)
• segli(Latvian) (cog)
• Suedel(Luxembourgish) (cog)
• silla(Spanish) (cog)
• sadel(Tok Pisin) (bor)

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