English Explanatory Dictionary

saddle

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
verb
  1. To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
  2. To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
  3. To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
  4. Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
  5. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
  6. To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
  7. To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
  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. To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
  10. Often followed by up.
  11. To put a saddle on an animal.
  12. Of a person: to get into a saddle.
name
  1. A sub-sitio in the sitio of Proper Pudong, barangay of Pudong, Kapangan, Benguet, Philippines.

Pronunciation

/ˈsædl̩/ /ˈsæd(ə)l/ En-us-saddle.ogg

Word forms

saddle saddles saddling saddled no-table-tags glossary saddlest saddledst saddleth

Etymology

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

Synonyms

harness saddle saddle brown saddle reef saddle point saddle oxford or saddle shoe

Derived words

asaddle back in the saddle boots and saddles burr in one's saddle burr under one's saddle dressage saddle elfin saddle English saddle in the saddle jumping saddle McClellan saddle offsaddle packsaddle park saddle put the saddle on the right horse racing saddle resaddle ride tall in the saddle saddie saddle back saddleback saddle-backed saddle-backed bush cricket saddle back reef saddle-bag saddlebag saddle bag saddle bar saddle beast saddlebill saddle-billed stork saddle blanket saddle block anaesthesia saddlebow saddle-bow saddle bow Saddle Brook saddle brown saddlebum saddle-bum saddle bum saddle carbine saddlecloth saddle-cloth saddle embolus saddle feather saddleflap saddle gall saddle grafting saddle hackle Saddle Hills County saddlehorn saddle horn saddle horse saddle joint saddleless saddlelike saddlemaker saddle nose saddlenose

Translations

Afrikaans: saal Albanian: shalë Northern Altai: эр Southern Altai: ээр Amharic: ኮርቻ Amharic: ኮር Arabic: سَرْج Arabic: مَرْكَب Arabic: سرج Argobba: ኮርቻ Armenian: թամբ Aromanian: shauã Avar: кьили Azerbaijani: yəhər Bashkir: эйәр Belarusian: сядло́ Bengali: জিন Breton: dibr Bulgarian: седло́ Burmese: ကုန်းနှီး Buryat: эмээл Catalan: sella Chechen: нуьйр Cherokee: ᎦᏯᎱᎶ Chichewa: sadulo Chinese Mandarin: 鞍 Chinese Mandarin: 鞍子 Chinese Mandarin: 鞍座 Chinese Mandarin: 馬鞍 /马鞍 Chuvash: йӗнер Cornish: diber Crimean Tatar: eger Czech: sedlo Dalmatian: siala Drung: ga Dutch: zadel Esperanto: selo Estonian: sadul Faroese: saðil Finnish: satula French: selle Saterland Frisian: Soadel West-Frisian: seal Friulian: siele Galician: sela Ge'ez: ሕንባል Ge'ez: ራሕን Ge'ez: ኮር Ge'ez: አሪጓዝ Aromanian: nshiuedz Aromanian: nshel Azerbaijani: yəhərləmək Bulgarian: оседлавам Czech: osedlat Dutch: zadelen Finnish: satuloida Finnish: kiinnittää Finnish: laittaa Finnish: sälyttää French: seller Old French: enseler Galician: enselar Georgian: შეკაზმვა Georgian: უნაგირის დადგმა German: satteln German: besatteln Hungarian: nyergel Hungarian: felnyergel Ingrian: satuloija Ingrian: satuloittaa Italian: sellare Japanese: 鞍を置く Japanese: 鞍を付ける Latvian: seglot Lithuanian: balnoti Luxembourgish: suedelen Macedonian: седла Mongolian: эмээллэх
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