Definitions for saddle

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saddle sad·dle

Spelling: [sad-l]

IPA: /ˈsæd l/

Saddle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in saddle (addels).

Definitions for saddle

noun

1. a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
2. a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc.
3. a part of a harness laid across the back of an animal and girded under the belly, to which the terrets and checkhook are attached.
4. something resembling a saddle in shape, position, or function.
5. the part of the back of an animal where a saddle is placed.
6. (of mutton, venison, lamb, etc.) a cut comprising both loins. this cut, trimmed and prepared for roasting.
7. (of poultry) the posterior part of the back.
8. a ridge connecting two higher elevations.
9. the covering of a roof ridge.
10. bolster (def 7).
11. a raised piece of flooring between the jambs of a doorway.
12. an inverted bracket bearing on the axle of a railroad car wheel as a support for the car body.
13. Ordnance. the support for the trunnion on some gun carriages.
14. Machinery. a sliding part for spanning a space or other parts to support something else, as the cross slide and toolholder of a lathe.
15. a strip of leather, often of a contrasting color, sewn on the vamp or instep of a shoe and extending to each side of the shank.
16. saddle shoe.
17. Ceramics. a bar of refractory clay, triangular in section, for supporting one side of an object being fired.
18. (in a suspension bridge) a member at the top of a tower for supporting a cable.

Idioms

1. in the saddle, in a position to direct or command; in control. at work; on the job.

verb (used with object)

1. to put a saddle on:
2. to load or charge, as with a burden:
3. to impose as a burden or responsibility.

verb (used without object)

1. to put a saddle on a horse (often followed by up).
2. to mount into the saddle (often followed by up).

Origin of saddle

before 900; (noun) Middle English sadel, Old English sadol; cognate with German Sattel, Old Norse sǫthull; (v.) Middle English sad(e)len, Old English sadolian, derivative of the noun; akin to

Examples for saddle

Then, still softly and swiftly, he lifted the saddle from its peg and put it on its back.

But today, skyrocketing costs price way too many young people out of a higher education, or saddle them with unsustainable debt.

"Give me three minutes to get my saddle on my horse and out of town," said Andrew.

With the big kettledrums on either side of the saddle, and all that.

Andy turned in the saddle and grinned back at the followers.

We will not rest till we find out what she ordered and how that famous butt is holding up after four days in the saddle.

He leaned over the saddle and spurred the pinto into his racing gait.

Certainly Weaver has been the burr under Palmer's saddle for almost his entire career.

Stephen caught the bridle, and Ambrose helped the burgess into the saddle.

In February 1909, at age 79, he toppled drunk from his saddle at Fort Sill, Okla.