saddle

sustantivo

1. 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.

   His [Cotton's] Horſe vvas led before, vvith a mourning Veluet Saddle on his backe, his Coffin had a Crimſon Sattin Quilt lined with purple Silke, ouer him vvas laid his Bible, Svvord and Hat: […]

   My horse's bridle they [robbers] slipt, and search'd yᵉ saddle, which they pull'd off, but let the horse graze, and then turning againe bridl'd him and tied him to a tree, yet so as he might graze, and thus left me bound.

   Consider your master's health, and rather than let him take long journeys, […] leave one of his horse's fore shoes loose in the morning; or contrive that the saddle may pinch the beast in the withers; or keep him without corn all night and morning, so that he may tire on the road; […]

   I saw many brave men cut down, many fall mortally wounded from their saddles.

2. 2

   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. A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.

3. 3

   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. 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. 4

   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. A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.

5. 5

   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. The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.

6. 6

   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. Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.

   [A] good horſeman, […] is ſkilfull to knovv, and hable to tell others, hovv, by certain ſure ſignes, a man may choiſe a colte, that is like to prove an other day excellent for the ſaddle.

   [A]nd the third ſort [of camel] are called Ragnahil, vvhich are of lovver ſtature and learner bodies then the reſidue, vnfit for burthen, and therefore are vſed for the ſaddle, by all the Noble men of Numidia, Arabia, and Libia: […]

   Well said!—are thy friends ripe for the saddle?

   He travelled in company with them until they reached the Sweet Water; then taking a couple of horses, one for the saddle, and the other as a packhorse, he started off express for Pierre's Hole, to make arrangements against their arrival, that he might commence his hunting campaign before the rival company.

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   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. Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”).

8. 8

   Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.

   The Hill Zeliſco bore S.E. vvhich is a very high Hill in the Country, vvith a Saddle or bending on the top.

   [W]e had to dismount and lead our animals [camels] up a narrow hill-path with broken steps of rock so polished by long years of passing feet that they were dangerous in wet weather. […] After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.

   So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley, backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.

   With Lizzie leading, they scrambled quickly over several false peaks towards the saddle.

9. 9

   Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.

   To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] 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 and seasonings.

   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: a tradition had been preserved in order to humiliate. Perhaps it really was time the British limped out of Malaya.

10. 10

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.

11. 11

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. 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.

    […] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.

12. 12

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.

13. 13

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold. Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”).

14. 14

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).

15. 15

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.

16. 16

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.

17. 17

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.

18. 18

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.

    Door Shoes - (doors with saddle threshold) are [strips that] provide a seal between the door and the threshold.

    [The part of a] door that is generally referred to as the "threshold" is actually made up of two separate components : a sill , which serves as the bottom of the door frame and diverts water and dirt away from the home, and the threshold or saddle[…]

19. 19

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).

20. 20

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.

21. 21

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).

22. 22

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.

23. 23

    Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”).

    'Now then … What'll it be, boys?' Mr Berman asked. / My mother answered. 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'

24. 24

    A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.

    In "hammocking," a new program is placed in the "saddle" between two established hits, or "tent poles."

verbo

1. 1

   To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).

   Then roſe Balaam vp in the mornynge, & ſadled his Aſſe, & wente wͪ the prynces of yͤ Moabites.

   Saddle your horſe on the race day in the ſtable before you leade him forth, and fixe both the pannell and the girthes to his backe and ſides vvith Shooe-makers vvaxe to preuent all daungers.

   vno pienſa el Báyo, otro que lo ensilla, the bay horſe thinketh one thing, and he that ſaddleth him thinketh another thing.

   Some fevv of the horſes kept their ſtanding ſtill unaffrighted, and even thoſe they had much ado to ſaddle, to bridle, and to mount upon; […]

2. 2

   To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.

   Reſolv'd for Sea, the Slaves thy Baggage pack; / Each ſaddled, vvith his Burden on his back: […]

   The centre of the nest is what I would call saddled on the bough, the materials being laid so that the nest is thinner in its middle part and thicker at the two opposite sides, so as to have a firm hold.

3. 3

   figuradoTo enter (a trained horse) into a race.

4. 4

   figuradoChiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.

   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.

   He is saddled with house payments now, so he can't afford to spend more money.

   He wished he had not been saddled with Whippham's rather futile son as his chaplain.

5. 5

   figuradoChiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.

   I did not dislose the name of the man I proposed, because I found her only too eager to marry anyone upon whom she could saddle her debts, and so make him either pay them or change places with her.

6. 6

   arcaicoTo control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.

   But he never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.

7. 7

   figuradoTo get (someone) to do a burdensome task.

   Picked up Sotheby, who endeavoured to saddle me for a review of his polyglot Virgil. I fear I shall scarce convince him that I know nothing of the Latin lingo.

8. 8

   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.

9. 9

   obsoletoTo put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.

10. 10

    Often followed by up. To put a saddle on an animal.

    Next day, while we were saddling, Ali and Abd el Kader appeared.

11. 11

    Often followed by up. Of a person: to get into a saddle.

    Till the dead midnight we saddled not,— / I have journeyed far and fast— / And hither I come to carry thee back / Ere the darkness shall be past.

    [A]y, every churl who owns a manor, if he dares—must needs arm and saddle, and levy war on his own behalf, and harry and slay the King's lieges, if he have not garlic to his roast goose every time he chooses […]

Formas

plural

saddles

pasado

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participio

saddled

gerundio

saddling

3.ª persona del singular

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