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Saddle

noun

A seat for the rider of a horse or camel.

A pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle). Synonym: saddleback.

Cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins.

A piece of leather across the instep of a shoe.

A seat for the rider of a bicycle. Synonym: bicycle seat.

Posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl.

verb

(past & past part. saddled; pres. part. saddling)

Put a saddle on.

Load or burden; encumber.

Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to. Synonyms: burden, charge.

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"Saddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... mentioned yesterday to the Queen, that all the ladies' saddle-horses, including the Queen-Dowager's own favourite horses, belonged to the Queen; but it strikes her that it would be well if the Queen was to give the Queen-Dowager the choice of two or three of her own horses, and that she might keep them. The Queen would wish Lord Melbourne ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Volume 1 (of 3), 1837-1843) • Queen Victoria

... quarters are usually subdivided in the manner shown in the sketch, in which the several joins are defined by the intervening lines and figures. Hind quarter: No. 1, the leg; 2, the loin—the two, when cut in one piece, being called the saddle. Fore quarter: No. 3, the shoulder; 4 and 5 the neck; No. 5 being called, for distinction, the scrag, which is generally afterwards separated from 4, the lower and better joint; No. 6, the breast. The haunch of mutton, so often ...

— The Book of Household Management • Mrs. Isabella Beeton

... remember after that was feeling the greasewood thorns tearing my flesh and my clothes next day. We were away out on the desert not far from North Pilot butte. Poor Sam couldn't speak. I got him off poor old Pinto, and took off the saddle for a pillow for him. I hung the saddle-blanket on a greasewood so as to shade his face; then I got on my own poor horse, poor old Billy, and started to hunt help. I rode and rode. I was tryin' to find some outfit. When Billy lagged I beat him on. You ...

— Letters on an Elk Hunt • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... threw his battle-axe upon the ground, and drawing rein, sat upon his saddle with folded arms, and Kenric saw by his armour that he too was one of the enemy, and ...

— The Thirsty Sword • Robert Leighton

... to the barn. I saddled and bridled my pony. I leaped into the saddle and struck my heels into the pony's flanks, and away I went in a run all the way to Petersburg—six miles and not a ...

— Mitch Miller • Edgar Lee Masters

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