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▪ I. saddle, n.|ˈsæd(ə)l|
Forms: 1 sadol, 3–6 sadel, 4–6 sadill, 5–6 sadell, sadil, 5 saddill, sadille, -yl, -yll(e, -elle, -ul, 5, 9 Sc. saidle, 5–7 sadle, 6– saddle.
[Com. Teut.: OE. sadol, -ul masc. = MDu. sadel (mod.Du. zadel, zaal), OHG. satal, -ul (MHG. satel, mod.G. sattel), ON. sǫðull (Sw., Da. sadel):—OTeut. *sađulo-z.
Possibly adopted in OTeut. from some other Indogermanic language, and if so perh. a derivative of the root *sod-, ablaut-var. of *sed- (see sit v.), whence the synonymous L. sella (:—*sedlā), OSl. sedlo (Russian siedlo, Pol. siodlo). No known language, however, has a corresponding derivative from the o grade of the root.]
I.
1. a. A seat for a rider to be used on the back of a horse or other animal; esp., a concave seat of leather having side flaps and fitted with girths and stirrups. Also an analogous kind of seat for use on a cycle.
for the saddle, for riding purposes. in the saddle, on horseback. to lose one's saddle, to become unhorsed.
Beowulf 1038 (Gr.) Eahta mearas..þara anum stod sadol..þæt wæs hildesetl heahcyninᵹes. c1205Lay. 6473 æt his sadele an æx. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3949 Vp-on hise asse his sadel he dede. c1330Arth. & Merl. 3871 (Kölbing) Mani in sadles held hem stille, & mani al so of hors felle. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1199 Vpon a thikke palfrey paper white With sadel rede..Sitte Dido. 1484Caxton Chivalry 65 Lyke as by the sadyl a knyght is sure upon his hors. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. i. 6, I prethee Tom, beate Cuts Saddle, put a few Flockes in the point. 1640tr. Verdere's Rom. of Rom. III. 182 [They] let fly..with such a force, that they had almost lost their saddles. 1650Fuller Pisgah iv. v. §31. 91 Yea, such was his persevering beauty (fair in the Cradle and Saddle too)— that it lasted unto his old-age. 1672Petty Pol. Anat. (1691) 56 The 16,000 Families have for the Coach and Saddle near 40 M. Horses. a1745Swift Direct. Servants, Groom, Contrive that the Saddle may pinch the Beast in his Withers. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville I. 113 Taking a couple of horses, one for the saddle, and the other as a pack-horse. 1859Tennyson Elaine 96 Sir King, mine ancient wound is hardly whole, And lets me from the saddle. 1887Bury & Hillier Cycling (Badm. Libr.) 340 A suitable saddle is a necessity for the comfort of the cyclist.
fig.1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 42 Nothing awes a great River so much as a bridge;..a bridge is the saddle to ride the Sea-horse.
b. With qualifying word indicating a particular kind of saddle; esp. great saddle, a saddle for the ‘great horse’ (see horse n. 22).
For hunting, pad, portmanteau, running, war saddle, etc. see the first element. Also packsaddle n., side-saddle.
1508Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. IV. 119 Item, for v French sadilles to giff away; ilk sadill xxviij s. 1581Will of Wylteshire (Somerset Ho.), Scottissh sadell. 1598Florio, Scrignuto naso, a camoset, a flat-nose, a nose like a scotch-saddle. 1607Markham Cavelarice vi. ix. 49 [margin] The great horse saddle. Ibid. 50 Next vnto this saddle is the Morocco saddle.., and these two Saddles for seruice in the warres, are..sufficient. 1644Evelyn Diary 1 Apr., The designe is admirable, some keeping neere an hundred brave horses, all managed to y⊇ greate saddle. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 314 Saddles..high and close, like our great Saddle. 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 345/1 A Burford Saddle, hath the Seat plain, and the Skirts plain and streight. 1701P. Warwick Mem. Chas. I, 66 He rid the great horse very well; and on the little saddle he was..a laborious hunter, or field-man.
†c. saddle curule [nonce-use, tr. L. sella curulis], the curule chair.
1533Bellenden Livy i. iii. (S.T.S.) I. 47 He cled him with riche & riall abilȝementis, þat he was wourthy to sett in þe sadill curall. Ibid. 25, 181.
d. Ellipt. for saddle brown in sense 12 below.
1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 26 June 14-a/3 (Advt.), The perfect handbag for carrying everything in Saddle, Tan or Rust. 1977West Briton 25 Aug. 31/5 (Advt.), 1974 (Oct.) Lancia Fulvia 3 Coupe, finished in maroon with saddle interior.
2. Figurative phrases.
a. in the saddle, in a position of active management and guidance of affairs, in office; also, in readiness for work. Similarly to get into the saddle. to cast out of saddle, to deprive of office or position.
1660Pepys Diary 3 Mar., He told me he feared there was new design hatching, as if Monk had a mind to get into the saddle. 1675tr. Machiavelli's Prince vii. (Rtldg. 1883) 52 Such as by the favour of fortune..have got into the saddle. 1738Neal Hist. Purit. IV. 225 The Presbyterians being now again in the saddle. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxv, I have known when my bare word would have cast the best man-at-arms among ye out of saddle and out of service. 187919th Cent. 668 All the states of Italy accepted the new Pope; and Rodrigo Borgia, once in the saddle, was not a man to be easily dislodged. 1881R. G. White Eng. Without & Within xiv. 323 The phrase ‘in the saddle’—as an expression of readiness for work, is a peculiarly English phrase. 1891S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 28 Otherwise the happy-go-lucky..system of production could not keep itself in the saddle to any durable extent.
b. † to be beside the saddle: to be beside the mark. (Cf. cushion n. 10 b.) † to put or set beside the saddle: to put ‘out of the running’, to defeat the plans or ruin the career of. (Cf. cushion n. 10 c.) † to sit beside the saddle: ? to abandon oneself to despair.
1568Grafton Chron. II. 873 The French king..fearing least when he had almost runne his race, King Henry would put him beside hys sadell, whome he did halfe suspect to be a back friend of hys. 1579–80North Plutarch, Tiberius & Caius (1656) 693 If he could obtain it [sc. the Consulship], he was fully bent to set Caius beside the saddle. a1590Greene Metamorph. Wks. (Grosart) IX. 81 Well, howsoeuer it be, Lucidor shall be mine, hee shall haue my heart, and I his, or else I will sit beside the saddle. 1644Vicars God in Mount (1844) 19 As that no power either of Prince or Parliament, shall ever be able to set us, hereafter, beside the saddle. 1664J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 36 This Doctor is besides the Saddle, what is now in Use is not our Enquiry.
c. (I will) either win the saddle or lose the horse (or vice versa): said by one engaging in an adventure of which the issue will be either highly profitable or ruinous. Hence in various similar phrases.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 62 b, He hath both ieoperded the horse, and lost the saddle. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. Wks. 1883–4 V. 131 Whatsoeuer two resolute men will goe to dice for it, and win the bridle or lose the saddle. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. v. 22 But Blandamour..litle prays'd his labours evill speed, That for to winne the saddle lost the steed. 1603Breton Packet Mad Lett. 7 But my state being so downe the winde..I wil..thrust my selfe into some place of seruice in the warres, where I will either winne the Horse, or lose the Saddle. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. §42. 894 They..resolve either to ‘win the saddle or loose the Horse’.
d. to lay or set the saddle upon the right horse (and similar phrases): to lay the blame on the right person.
1635in Sainsbury Cal. of Court Min. E.I. Co. (1907) 15 [Resolving how they might] sett the saddle upon the right horse. 1652J. Collinges Caveat for Prof. (1653) ii. C 1, You have laid the saddle upon the wrong Horse. a1653Gouge Comm. Hebr. xi. 37 To remove this scandal, the apostle setteth the saddle on the right Horse, and sheweth, that [etc.]. 1690Wood Life 25 July (O.H.S.) III. 336 E. G. with child, layd on the tapster, who said that ‘set the saddle on the right horse’. 1727De Foe Syst. Magic i. iii. (1840) 83 But let us bring things to a right understanding, do Satan justice, and set the saddle upon the right devil. 1752C. Lennox Female Quixote (1820) II. vii. xii. 154 I'll clear myself, and put the saddle upon the right horse! 1839Hood Tale of a Trumpet xlviii, And the cat at last escapes from the bag—And the saddle is placed on the proper nag.
e. to put (one) to every corner of or to all the seats of (one's) saddle: to compel to try every expedient. Sc.
1825Scott in Lockhart Life (1837) VI. 24, I have the dregs of Abbotsford House to pay for..so I must look for some months to be put to every corner of my saddle. 1825Jamieson Dict. s.v., To put one to a' the seats o' the Saddle, to nonplus, to gravel one, S.
f. In proverbial similative phrases.
1566Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. (1846) I. 242 Als seimlye a sight..as to putt a sadill upoun the back of ane unrewly kow. 1663Aron-bimn. 88 But for this pretence of pulling down Antichrist, it is a saddle that will fit any back. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 215 That becometh him as handsomely (according to our Proverb) as A saddle doth a Cowes back.
3. That part of the harness of a shaft-horse which takes the bearing of the shafts (see quot. 1851); a cart- or gig-saddle.
[1377: see cartsaddle vb. s.v. cart n. 6. c 1425 Voc. in Wright-Wülcker 665/33 Hoc dorsilollum, cartsadylle.] 1794[see housing n.2 2 b]. 1837Marryat Olla Podr. xxxvi, The shaft horse neither felt his saddle nor his belly-band. 1851H. Stephens Bk. of the Farm (ed. 2) I. 430 The shaft-horse requires bridle, collar, haims, saddle, and breeching, to be fully equipped... The saddle—as saddle and breeching together are commonly called—is placed on the horse's back immediately behind the shoulder. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports iii. iii. iv. 543/1 The supporting and backing part [of gig harness] consists of the Pad or Saddle... This has two rings for the reins, called the Terrets, and a Hook for the bearing rein. 1875[see pad n.3 2 b]. 1882J. Philipson Harness 25 The pad is sometimes used instead of a saddle for single harness.
II. Something resembling a saddle in shape or position.
4. Physical Geogr., Mining, etc.
a. A depression in a hill or line of hills [so G. sattel]; spec. in Geol., a depression along the axis of an anticline, concave in longitudinal section and convex in transverse section.
b. A long elevation of land with sloping sides; a ridge, esp. one connecting two hills; also, a similar formation of ice or snow.
1555Eden Decades 350 A lowe longe lande, and a longe poynt, with a saddle throwgh the myddeste of it. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1699) 267 A very high Hill..with a Saddle or bending on the top. 1779Forrest Voy. New Guinea 159 [We] discerned other land, bearing from N.W. to W.N.W. forming in saddles and hummocs. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xix, There was a long narrow saddle or ridge of limestone about five hundred feet high. 1839Murchison Silur. Syst. i. 134 The carboniferous strata are thrown into partial saddles and curvatures. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xvi. 108 The..glacier..being terminated by a saddle which stretches across from mountain to mountain. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) V. xl. 23 The Palatine is connected with the Esquiline by the low ridge or saddle of the Velia. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) 130 We stepped at last on to the little saddle of snow. 1876Green Phys. Geol. ix. §3. 347 When the beds have been bent into the form of arches these are called Anticlinals or Saddles. 1886T. M. Reade Origin of Mountain Ranges xvi. 187 (caption) Saddle in lower Silurian rocks between Clarach Bay and Aberystwyth, formed by the junction of anticlinal and synclinal curves. 1928E. R. Lilley Geol. Petroleum & Natural Gas xii. 293 Where the amount of oil and gas is sufficient only to fill the distinctly domed portions of the fold, the saddle is normally water-bearing. 1952Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. CVIII. 16 Individual anticlines have lengths of up to 250 miles, following long straight courses and rising and falling into culminations and saddles. 1977Offshore Engineer May 52/1 The structure is a tilted fault block with hydrocarbons trapped on the upthrown side of a normal fault in two culminations separated by a saddle.
c. Mining. = saddle reef in sense 12 below; spec. one that is anticlinal rather than synclinal.
1872Rep. Vermont Board Agric. 630 The miners were quarreling about false and true veins, horses of rock and saddles of ore. 1908J. M. Maclaren Gold ii. 368 In working the saddles, prospecting for lower saddles is effected by sinking shafts designed to strike a ‘leg’ of an underlying saddle, from whence stopes are carried up to the crest of the anticline. 1937W. H. Emmons Gold Deposits of World vii. 528 As many as 24 quartz saddles in an anticline have been passed through from the surface to a depth of 2,200 feet. 1950David & Browne Geol. Commonwealth of Austral. II. xxvii. 196 Inverted saddles are smaller and less common than saddles, but they have given profitable yields in several mines.
5. In mechanical uses.
a. Naut. A block of wood, hollowed out above and below, fastened to a spar to take the bearing of another spar attached to it.
1512–13Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 463 Item..for viij greit treis to mak the sadillis to the greit schip and Margret..xlviij s. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Saddle, a small..wooden block,..nailed on the lower yard⁓arms, to retain the studding-sail booms in a firm and steady position. 1882Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 178 To get the heel of the boom..down in the saddle.
b. Bridge-building. (a) A block on the top of a pier to carry the suspension cables. (b) A frame used in the construction of a pontoon-bridge (see quot. 1853).
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 108 On the extreme height of the suspension piers are placed the cast iron blocks or saddles. 1853Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges (ed. 3) 30 The Saddle [of a pontoon bridge] is a frame of fir timber, which is placed centrally over the axis of a pontoon..and serves to receive the ends of the balks. 1868Daily Tel. 14 Apr., A fresh pontoon was brought alongside, fresh saddles were lashed to it, another length of balks..was dropped into the saddle. 1876Encycl. Brit. IV. 301/2 Suspension Bridges.—The chains where they pass over the piers rest on saddles.
c. A ‘seat’ or support on which a gun is placed for bouching.
1862F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (ed. 9) 190 Saddle [for Armstrong gun], with Tightening Screws. 1875in Knight Dict. Mech.
d. (See quot. 1888.)
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. s.v., The seatings or supports which carry horizontal cylindrical boilers..are called saddles. 1899Daily News 9 Mar. 5/3 The saddles that held the six thirty-ton boilers in place broke.
e. Telegraphy. A bracket to support the wire on the top of a pole or ridge.
1867R. S. Culley Pract. Telegr. (ed. 2) 122 The saddle or bracket must be fixed with screws. 1885Ibid. (ed. 8) 148 At the top of the pole a galvanised iron roof is fixed, and over it a cast-iron saddle, into which the insulator bolt fits. 1884Law Times Rep. LI. 161/2 The attachments to buildings were made..by means of standards or ridge saddles attached to the roofs.
f. Railways. (? U.S.) (a) The bearing resting on the journal of an axle in the axle-box. (b) A chair for a rail.
1875in Knight Dict. Mech. 459, 2011.
g. In various machines: The base of a slide rest, drilling head, etc., which slides along its support.
1869W. J. M. Rankine Cycl. Mach. & Hand-Tools Plate H 8 The self-acting motion for the saddles is arranged as follows. 1869Eng. Mech. 24 Dec. 355/1 The saddle (which carries the wood) is drawn to the hand-wheel end of the machine. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 264/2 The lower part of the slide-rest is termed the ‘saddle’. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Saddle, the base of a slide rest... Similarly, the sliding plate which carries the drill spindle and gear wheels of a radial drill.
h. (a) A saddle-shaped electrical conductor. (b) A concave pad to be applied to a limb that is to be electrified.
1838Faraday Exper. Researches (1844) II. 5 A plate of copper..was bent into a saddle shape,..a jacket of sheet caoutchouc was put over the saddle. 1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 492 If, then, we wish to administer direct shocks to a paralytic limb, say the leg, we apply a sponge director or saddle..to the hip.
i. In various applications: see quots.
1750T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expositor, Saddles are used by the Smiths to turn Thimbles hollow on. 1833Loudon Encycl. Arch. 492 To pebble-pave the byres..with proper cribstone and saddle (the former partitions off the crib; and the latter the gutter behind). 1856Morton Cycl. Agric., Provincialisms, Saddle, (Fife), that part of stall between manger and grip. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 61/2 [Varnish making.] A saddle, which is a sheet of plate-iron, or tin, 12 in. broad, and turned up 11/4 in. at each side..to prevent the spilling of the varnish during the time of taking..out. 1875T. Seaton Fret Cutting 76 There are two very efficient aids to the saw... The first is the bench saddle... It is a piece of wood with reverse shoulders; the under shoulder hooks against the side of the bench,..the upper shoulder catches any piece of wood laid against it for sawing. 1884W. S. B. Maclaren Spinning 250 Saddles, the steel bars in a gill box on which the fallers travel. 1887Archit. Publ. Soc. Dict., Saddle, a term used in Suffolk for a thin piece of wood fixed on the floor between the jambs of a door and under it.
j. An insulating device designed to be fitted around an electrical wire or conduit to help to hold it in place.
1888D. Salomons Managem. Accumulators & Private Electr. Light Installations (ed. 3) ii. ii. 107 Leather saddles answer well to keep the wires in place. 1930F. C. Raphael Electr. Wiring of Buildings vi. 91 Multiple saddles are used if two or more lengths of conduit run together. 1969H. A. Miller Pract. Wiring I. v. 34 It is good practice to secure single runs by clips and multiple runs by saddles.
k. Dentistry. The basal part of a denture, which replaces alveolar tissue and bears the artificial teeth.
1907H. J. Goslee Princ. & Pract. Crown & Bridgework xxiv. 443 The saddle should now be swaged of 30 to 32 gauge platinum, trimmed to the proper outline, fitted in the mouth with the caps in place, and then soldered thereto with platinum solder. 1930I. G. Nichols Prosthetic Dentistry xli. 638 The various materials employed in rebasing saddles are: modeling compound, plaster, and wax. 1962Blake & Trott Periodontol. iv. 39 The free end saddle, which cannot be supported by occlusal rests, always presents a problem.
l. A fire-clay bar for supporting ceramic ware during glazing.
1911A. B. Searle tr. Bourry's Treat. Ceramic Industries (ed. 2) xii. 399 The pieces, especially plates, may be placed upright in rectangular saggers, kept up at the bottom by rectangular saddles and at the top by a series of thimbles. 1930― Encycl. Ceramic Industries III. 74/2 Saddle, a type of support used for plates, etc. in a saggar. It consists of bars of triangular cross-section. Two of these are laid parallel to each other on the bottom of the saggar, and the plates are stood on end across these. 1964H. Hodges Artifacts i. 39 These setters vary considerably in shape, and their names are usually adequately descriptive—saddle, stilt, spur, thimble, pin. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iii. 102 Thimbles, saddles, and stilts are made of fireclay and so designed that the weight rests only on sharp points.
6. Cookery. In full saddle of mutton. A ‘joint’ of mutton, venison, etc., consisting of the two loins and conjoining vertebræ.
1747H. Glasse Cookery 4 The Saddle of Mutton (which is the two Loins). Ibid. 24 To French a Hind Saddle of Mutton. It is the two Rumps. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 338 A saddle of mutton, or more properly a chine. 1806Pike Sources Mississ. (1810) 75 Hams and saddles of venison. 1844H. Stephens Bk. of the Farm II. 99 When cut double, forming the chine or saddle. 1859All Year Round No. 29. 57 Nowhere can the equal of a Sussex haunch or saddle be obtained. 1890L. D'Oyle Notches p. ix, They took merely the skins and ‘saddle’ of the antelope they killed.
7. Applied to certain parts of animals.
a. A natural saddle-like marking on the back of the Harp Seal. Cf. saddle-back n. 4 c.
1784Pennant Arctic Zool. I. 165 The Newfoundland Seal-hunters call it the Harp, or Heart Seal, and name the marks on the sides the saddle. 1884Goode, etc. Nat. Hist. Aquatic Anim. 62.
b. Conchol. † (a) A saddle-oyster (see 12); (b) see quot. 1851.
1815S. Brookes Introd. Conchol. 156 Saddle, Anomia Sella. 1851Woodward Mollusca 78 The shell..is an extremely elongated cone,..divided into cells or chambers by a series of partitions (septa)... When they are folded, the elevations are called ‘saddles’. 1894Geol. Mag. Oct. 436 Shell (cast) discoidal, with somewhat inflated whorls;..outer saddle only partly known.
c. (See quots.)
1854, etc. [see saddle feather, saddle hackle (feather), sense 12 below]. 1872L. Wright Poultry xvii. 205 Saddle, the posterior part of the back, reaching to the tail, in a cock, answering to the cushion in a hen; often, however, applied to both sexes, cushion being more restricted to a great development, as in Cochins, while ‘saddle’ may be applied to any breed. 1976J. Batty Understanding Old Eng. Game (ed. 2) 58 Saddle, that part of the back of a male bird nearest to the tail which includes long feathers known as saddle hackles.
8. Bot. A ridge separating the fovea and foveola in the leaves of Isoetes.
1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 475 Above the fovea and separated from it by the ‘saddle’, lies a smaller depression.
9. a. A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, often in a contrasting colour.
1930Footwear Organiser Jan. 37/1 The tie shoe is a development of the one-bar, with a bar or saddle fastened in the centre by means of a fancy lace or ribbon tie through eyelets. 1948R. T. Wilcox Mode in Footwear 170 (caption) Saddle oxford—white elk—brown calf saddle—red rubber sole—worn since the 1920's. 1972N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 8/1 (Advt.), In bone leather with a blue saddle..in big girl sizes 5 to 9 medium width.
b. Ellipt. for saddle shoe in sense 12 below.
1972N.Y. Times 3 Nov. 8/1 (Advt.), Everyone loves our bumpy, bouncy saddle—the shoe that sparks up the classics.
10. Math. A saddle point.
1952W. Hume-Rothery et al. Metall. Equilibrium Diagrams xxx. 262 (heading) Diagrams involving intermediate compounds: saddles. Ibid., The highest point in the saddle, R, will be a maximum in the direction of the eutectic valleys, and at this point the solidus line..touches the liquidus. 1978Nature 7 Sept. 76/1 They explain..Thom's listing of the ways in which critical points of functions (that is, maxima, minima and saddles) of n variables can coalesce as k parameters vary.
III. attrib. and Comb.
11. Simple attrib., as saddle-cover, saddle-flap, saddle-girt, saddle-girth, saddle-horn (horn n. 22 b), saddle-lap, saddle-lashing, saddle-lining, saddle-load, saddle-nail, saddle-pad, † saddle-panel (panel n.1 1), saddle-paste, saddle-place, saddle-pommel, saddle-pouch, saddle-soap, saddle-spring, saddle-strap, saddle-stuffing, saddle-tack, saddle-withers; saddle-like, saddle-peaked adjs.; with the sense ‘used for riding’, as saddle-ass, saddle-colt, saddle mare, saddle-ox, saddle pony, saddle stock; with the meaning ‘saddle-shaped’, as saddle flange, saddle key; in the names of affections incident to the use of the saddle, as saddle boil, saddle-bruise, saddle raw, saddle sore, saddle soreness, saddle-weariness; also appositive, as (sense 5 a) saddle-crutch, (sense 4) saddle-glacier, (sense 5 g) saddle-piece; objective, as saddle-maker, saddle-making, saddle-stitching.
1657J. Watts Vind. Ch. Eng. 112 God once opened the mouth of Balaams *Saddle-asse.
1816U. Brown Jrnl. 20 Aug. in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1916) XI. 151 Cumberland's Back is Compleatly full of *Saddle Biles & in a full fever. 1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn ii. 8 He said they rode him all over the world..and his back was all over saddle-boils. 1977Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Apr. 422/1 His [sc. Mark Twain's] more excruciating experiences (seasickness, saddle boils, the running war against vermin).
1709Lond. Gaz. No. 4523/4 He had..a white Spot on his Back, that came by a *Saddle-bruise.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 208 The first Year *Saddle-Colts should only be walked.
1676S. Sewall Diary 27 Oct. (1878) I. 27 *Saddle Cover [was] lost. 1895M. A. Jackson Mem. Stonewall Jackson (ed. 2) xx. 403 A superb English saddle, bridle, holsters, saddle-cover. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) viii. xcii. 508 Afterwards we slept on our saddle-covers, the tanned fleece hooked last of all over the saddle-load to make a slippy and sweat-proof seat for the rider.
1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. s.v. Saddles, We have a *saddle-crutch for the main or driver boom on the taffarel.
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., *Saddle Flange, a curved flange hollowed out to fit a boiler, a pipe, or other cylindrical vessel.
1844H. Stephens Bk. of the Farm II. 219 The *saddle-flaps should be sponged clean of mud.
1813J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 712 We..found the stream as high as the *saddle-girts.
1813Scott Rokeby vi. xxxiii, And, bursting in the headlong sway, The faithless *saddle-girths gave way.
1884Pall Mall G. 10 June 11/1 The summit of the [Kangla] pass..is crowned by a noble *saddle glacier.
1856A. Cary Married 184 The bridle rein was twisted around the *saddle horn. 1890L. D'Oyle Notches 73, I..threw the rein of his horse up over the saddle-horn. 1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) vii. lxxxviii. 490 She [sc. a camel]..was docile and smooth to ride, turning left or right if the saddle-horn were tapped on the required side. 1971D. C. Brown Yukon Trophy Trails i. 20, I hung the box by a string from the saddlehorn and climbed on.
1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., *Saddle Key, a key whose inner face is hollowed to fit its shaft.
1803Scott's Minstrelsy III. 266 He louted owr his *saddle lap, To kiss her ere they part. 1822A. Cunningham Tradit. Tales, Last Ld. of Helvellyn (1887) 217 My fathers have fought to the saddle-laps in English blood for the men of the house of Maxwell.
c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 1 The muzzle and *saddle lashings of guns.
1784J. King Cook's Voy. III. vi. iii. 238 On each side of this break the land is quite low; beyond the opening rises a remarkable *saddle-like hill.
1919J. Masefield Reynard i. 5 Some..Brushed at saddle-flaps or hove *Saddle-linings to the stove.
1926*Saddle-load [see saddle-cover above].
c1500Melusine 43 Raymondyn sent for a *Sadlemaker, to whom he said: ‘My frend..ye muste cutte this hyde in fourme of a thonge’. 1886Encycl. Brit. XXI. 142/1 The saddle-maker has to consider the ease and comfort of both horse and rider.
Ibid., *Saddle-making and the cutting and sewing of bridles.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4312/3 Lost.., a bay *Saddle Mare. 1975Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 7 Sept. 16/2 His reports usually dealt with his saddlemare, Snippet, and her unexpected foal.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Saddle-nail, a short nail having a large, smooth head, used in making saddles.
1824W. J. Burchell Trav. S. Africa Index, s.v. Oxen, *Saddle Oxen: their rate of travelling.
1750J. Hempstead Diary 30 Mar. (1901) 546, I mended my old *Sadle pad. 1971J. McDougall Parsons on Plains xv. 135 Then I dressed, and putting a saddle-pad on, rode her [sc. a mare] all the afternoon.
1465–6Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 90 Pro ij *Sadillpanell empt. pro le ffissheman, ij s. iiij d. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Saddle, Some stuff their Saddle-Pannels with well dry'd Moss.
1917Harrods Gen. Catal. 537/4 Harrods' *Saddle Paste. Per tin... 0/6. 1919J. Masefield Reynard i. 5 The savour Of saddle-paste and polish spirit. 1939–40Army & Navy Stores Catal. 767/2 Propert's Saddle Paste..1/–.
1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. xlix. 521 *Saddle-peaked Hattin, traditional ‘Mount of Beatitudes’.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 322 When the screw is turned round, the *saddle-piece will slide uniformly along the triangular bar. 1890Slingo & Brooker Electr. Engin. xvii. 600 The channelling [for underground cables] consists of blocks of bituminous concrete made in six-foot lengths and jointed by a saddle-piece of the same material.
1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 209 Whoever..takes not off his [horse's] Saddle 'till he is cold, and then rubs the *Saddle-place well.
1593Markham Horsemanship B 3 b, Casting the raynes thereof ouer the *Saddle pomell. 1900H. Sutcliffe Shameless Wayne xxiv. (1905) 308 His return blow..grazing the Lean Man's saddle-pummel as it fell.
1926T. E. Lawrence Seven Pillars (1935) viii. xcvi. 532 We followed dragging my few things in their light *saddle-pouch.
1887Anstey in Macm. Mag. Feb. 261/2 My riding was interrupted for a while. Brutus was discovered..to have a *saddle-raw.
1889Field 7 Dec. LXXIV. 793/2 The *saddle soap made by Messrs. B―.
1946M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 354 Riders with bad seats will often give a *horse saddle sores. 1962C. Storr Lucy runs Away v. 26 I've ridden two miles... I've got saddle sores.
1907Daily Chron. 1 Mar. 7/5 *Saddle soreness is provoked if every stroke of the pedals extends the leg to the utmost.
1887Bury & Hiller Cycling (Badm. Libr.) 340 The combined *saddle-springs recently introduced.
1954E. Jenkins Tortoise & Hare xii. 149 A small suitcase..was being repaired by the local iron⁓monger, who did *saddle-stitching for the farmers.
1903A. Adams Log of Cowboy 17 Then the entire *saddle stock was driven in, so as to be at hand in case a hasty change of mounts was required. 1948F. Blake Johnny Christmas ii. 75 He went directly on to the door and pushed it open, passing in among the oxen and saddle-stock of the fort.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Saddle-straps..are used to hold the girths fast to the saddle. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 193 Cut a straight sapling while we rouse out the saddle-straps for a splice.
1871Kingsley At Last xiii, We saw the husk carded out..for..*saddle-stuffing.
1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 132 Hogg should purchase a pennyworth of *saddle-tacks, and..nail the ears of the Gude Grey Catte to his stable-door.
1909Chambers's Jrnl. June 347/1 In a general way, the word Bush recalls to the writer..the sun and dust and *saddle-weariness of the great gray inland plains.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Saddle, The *Saddle-Withers should be low.
12. Special comb., as saddle-band Sc., ? the band of a pedlar's pack; saddle-bar, (a) Glazing, each of the small horizontal iron bars (fitting over the upright stanchions) to which the lead panels are secured; (b) Saddlery (see quot. 1875); saddle-bill = saddle-billed stork; also attrib.; saddle-billed a., an epithet applied to the stork Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis, from the recurved shape of its bill; † saddle bitten a., galled with a saddle; saddle-blanket U.S., a small blanket used, folded, as a saddle-cloth; saddle block Obstetrics, the technique of anæsthetizing the perineal region by a low spinal injection; freq. attrib.; saddle-boiler, a boiler of concave form for use with heating apparatus; saddle-bracket, (a) a receptacle for a saddle when not in use; (b) Telegr. = 5 e above; saddlebred a., bred to have the gaits of an American Saddle Horse; also ellipt. as n.; saddle bronc U.S.: in a rodeo, a bronco ridden with a saddle; freq. attrib. as saddle bronc riding (also ellipt. as saddle bronc); saddle brown, the tan colour of saddle-leather; saddle-burned a., chafed by a saddle; saddle carp (see quot.); saddle-carpenter, one who makes the frames or trees of saddles; saddle-case, † (a) the housing of a saddle (obs.); (b) a travelling case for a saddle; † saddle-charge, ? a saddle load; saddle clip (see quot.); saddle club, a riding club; saddle-coloured a., (of complexion) saddle brown, tanned; † saddle drum, ? a small drum carried on the saddle; saddle-eaves pl., jocularly used for the side of a saddle; saddle embolus Med., an embolus straddling the fork of an artery, esp. the aorta, so as to block both branches; saddle-fast a., firmly seated in the saddle; saddle feather = saddle hackle (feather) below; saddle-gall, a sore produced on the back of a horse by the chafing of the saddle; saddle-galled a., chafed with the saddle; affected with saddle-gall; saddle graft, a graft made by saddle grafting; saddle-grafting (see quot.); saddle gun U.S., a gun carried on the saddle of a horse; saddle hackle (feather), any of the long feathers growing backwards from the saddle of a cock; so saddle-hackled a.; † saddle-hill, a saddle-back hill; saddle horse, (a) a horse which is used for riding; (b) (see quot. 1958); saddle-house, † (a) a saddle-cloth (obs.); (b) a building in which saddlery is kept; saddle-iron Sc., a stirrup; saddle-joint, (a) Mech. (see quot. 1875); (b) Building (see quot. 1901); (c) Anat. (see quot. 1897); saddle-leaf U.S., = tulip-tree 1 a; saddle-leather, the leather composing a saddle; also, leather specially prepared for saddle-making; saddle mark, (a) a mark or patch on a horse's back produced by the friction of a saddle; (b) (see quot. 1963); saddle-mat, a mat used in the Western U.S. as a saddle-cloth; saddle-nose, (a) a flat or snub-nose; (b) see quot. 1897; saddle-nosed a., having a saddle-nose; also, of a bird ‘having a soft nasal membrane saddled on the bill’ (Cent. Dict.); saddle-notch (see quot. 1930); hence as v. trans. and saddle-notched a.; saddle oxford, a saddle shoe in the Oxford style; saddle-oyster, a name given to certain anomioid bivalves, the shape of which resembles that of a saddle; saddle-pin, the pin of a cycle saddle which fits into a socket on the cycle frame; saddle pistol, a holster pistol; saddle-plate, the bent plate which forms the arch of the furnace in steam boilers of the locomotive type (Cent. Dict.); saddle point Math., (a) a point at which a curved surface is locally level but at which its curvature in two directions differs in sign, i.e. for a surface defined by a function f of x and y, a point at which ∂f/∂x = ∂f/∂y = 0 and (∂2f/∂x2)(∂2f/∂y2) Saddle Rock oyster; saddle-roof, a saddleback roof; saddle-room, a room in which saddlery is kept when not in use; saddle-rug, a saddle-cloth made of carpeting (Cent. Dict.); saddle scabbard N. Amer. (see quot. 1944); saddle sealing, hunting and catching the saddleback seal; saddle-shaped a., (a) resembling a saddle in shape; (b) Geol., anticlinal; saddle-shell = saddle-oyster; saddle shoe, a shoe with a saddle (sense 9 a); saddle shoulder Fashion, a square-cut shoulder on a jersey, etc., that is an extension of the sleeve; also attrib.; saddle-sick a., Sc., indisposed through riding; † saddle side, the concave lower side (of the liver); saddle-skirts pl., the lowermost parts of a saddle; also, the part of a horse's flanks covered by these; saddle-sore a., chafed with the saddle; † saddle-speck, a mark caused by the abrasion of the saddle; saddle spot = prec.; hence saddle-spotted a.; saddle-stead poet., the place of the saddle; saddle-stone, (a) Arch., the stone forming the angle at the summit of the coping of a gable; (b) ‘an old name for a variety of stone containing saddle-shaped depressions’ (Cent. Dict.); saddle-stool = saddle-bracket (a); saddle-tank (see quot. 1871); also attrib. as saddle-tank engine (see quot. 1888); saddle thrombus Med. = saddle embolus above; † saddle tore (see quot.); saddle tramp N. Amer. slang, a vagrant on horseback; saddle vein Mining = saddle reef above; saddle wire, (a) Telegr., the wire running along the tops of telegraph posts. (b) Bookbinding, a wire staple passed through the back fold of a single gathering; usu. attrib.; hence saddle-wired a. Also saddle back, -bag, -bow, -cloth, seat, -tree.
a1604in Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 463 It [sc. the ministrie] will die in thy hand Therefor the backe shall beare the *sadle-band.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 638 Frames [in lead-work] intended to receive these lights are made with bars across, to which the lights are fastened..called *saddle-bars. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 293 It is now most common to place the saddle⁓bars outside the glass. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Saddle-bar, the side-bar, side-plate, or spring-bar of a saddle-tree, one on each side connecting the pommel and cantle.
1906W. L. Sclater Birds S. Afr. IV. 43 (heading) *Saddle-bill, or African Jabiru. Ibid. 44 The Saddle-bill is found all over tropical Africa. 1947J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxiv. 289 The saddle bill or jabiru (Ephippiorhynchus sinegalensis)... They are striking-looking birds; the forepart of the long bill crimson, the centre black, and the saddle or shield which comes just above the nostrils, bright yellow. 1973Times 11 Dec. (Zaire Suppl.) p. vii/5, I was able to identify a saddle-bill stork.
1877Nature 17 May 54/1 The additions to the Zoological Society's Gardens..include..a *Saddle-billed Stork.
1592Greene Conny Catch. ii. Wks. (Grosart) X. 80 He..made him spotted in the backe, as if he had been *saddle bitten.
1817E. P. Fordham Let. 26 July in Personal Narr. Travels (1906) 98 My cloak and *saddle-blanket, spread on the floor, form my couch. 1885B. Harte Maruja vi, His quick eye was attracted by a saddle-blanket. 1925C. Jacobson Life Story Jeff Davis xxviii. 234 When I licked that gang at Little Rock during the last campaign, they went around on the streets with their faces looking as long as a saddle blanket. 1973A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 75 Twill weaving is done by the Navajo in making saddle blankets.
1946Parmley & Adriani in Southern Med. Jrnl. XXXIX. 194/2 The term ‘*saddle block analgesia’ is well chosen inasmuch as it is not only descriptive but is also free from the word spinal which sounds very, very dangerous to most obstetric patients. 1974Passmore & Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xl. 17/2 Low spinal anaesthesia (saddle block) involves the injection of local anaesthetic into the C[erebro] S[pinal] F[luid] of the subarachnoid space. Ibid., The incidence of serious complications is low and saddle block is popular in North America.
1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 228/2 The *saddle boiler is very efficient in form, steady and sure in its working. 1885Bazaar 30 Mar. 1254/2 Wanted, saddle boiler..to heat small greenhouse.
1844H. Stephens Bk. of the Farm I. 190 The riding-horse-stable should have *saddle-brackets. 1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 210 If a wire is to be run along the top of the pole, brackets..named saddle-brackets, or simply saddles, are..used.
1974*Saddlebred [see pleasure-horse s.v. pleasure n. 6]. 1976Horse & Hound 10 Dec. 73/1 (Advt.), 2 beautiful colts to mature 15 hands 2 in by American saddlebred Goldmount Bourbon Genius. 1977Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 18 Sept. 6/1 Lancer, an American saddlebred, who is nearly eight.
1949G. Rounds Rodeo 49 (heading) *Saddle Bronc Rodeo. 1956N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Sept. 47/2 Rodeo people call them broncs, but never broncos if they are saddled. Otherwise, they're ‘bareback horses’. Saddle broncs usually are larger. Neither are apt to be vicious. Most can be halter-led. Ibid., A saddle bronc ride, which requires more skill, lasts ten [seconds]. 1973Houston Chron. 14 Oct. (Suppl.) 2/3 Texas Prison Rodeo features bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, calf tussles, clowns and other events. 1976Columbus (Montana) News 3 June 1/4 The rodeo picks up again at 1:00 p.m. Sunday. Events are saddle bronc, bull riding, steer wrestling, [etc.]. 1977New Yorker 6 June 48/2 He rode dogies and then steers and saddle broncs.
1961Webster, *Saddle brown. 1975Cleveland (Ohio) Plain Dealer 31 Mar. 24-d (Advt.), Perfectly matched Rocker-Recliner or Swivel Rocker in handsome, saddle-brown Masland Duran vinyl.
1941J. Steinbeck Sea of Cortez xvi. 160, I removed the saddle to see whether he might not be *saddle-burned.
1888G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 416 When there is a row of large scales down the back it [sc. the King Carp] is called the ‘*Saddle Carp’.
a1720W. Gibson Dict. of Horses viii. (ed. 3) 125 A Country where there is perhaps the most expert *Saddle-Carpenters and Saddlers in the World.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., *Saddle-case. See the article Housing. 1895Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 497 Tin-lined Saddle Cases for Ladies' Saddles.
a1500Lat. & Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 609/35 Sauma, a *Sadyl⁓charge.
1884Knight Dict. Mech. Suppl., *Saddle Clip, a clip which straddles the spring and axle.
1946Carleton Coll. (Northfield, Mass.) Bull. Mar. 85 The *Saddle Club, open to students proficient in horsemanship. 1962A. Sampson Anat. of Britain xvi. 258 Guards officers..have their own club in Mayfair, their own polo club, cricket club, saddle club, flying club, shooting club. 1977Navy News June 18/3 Services saddle clubs have been helped.
1854‘Logan’ Master's House 260 That ‘*saddle-colored’ nigger grinning at me..would be all the better for about ‘forty-five’, well laid on. 1900Kipling Land & Sea Tales (1923) 39 The saddle-coloured sons of the soil looked down their noses. 1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xxxiii. 553 A saddle-colored negro of middle age.
1617Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 3) 593 *Saddle drummes of gold set with stones, vsed in Hawking.
1663Butler Hudibras i. i. 412 But after many strains and heaves, He got up to the *saddle⁓eaves.
1937Ann. Surg. CVI. 909 Incisions have been made very close to the aorta, in either one or the other iliac arteries, and successful removals of *saddle emboli accomplished. 1974J. D. Maynard in R. M. Kirk et al. Surgery xi. 236 Retrograde catheterisation to the bifurcation of the aorta will allow dislodgement of a saddle embolus.
1805Scott Last Minstr. iii. vi, Still sate the warrior *saddle-fast.
1854L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 128 The hackle and *saddle feathers are straw colour. 1901Nature 4 July 233/1 Manipulation of the tail-feathers..would not account for the likewise abnormal elongation of the saddle-feathers. 1946Winter & Funk Poultry Sci. & Pract. (ed. 2) iii. 55 Castrated males grow longer neck, saddle, and tail feathers than do cockerels.
1726Dict. Rust. (ed. 3), *Saddle-gall. 1831Youatt Horse 169 For saddle galls there is no better application than [etc.]. 1946K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiv. 224 The smooth patch of grey rock that looked like a saddle gall.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1555/4 One brown bay Nag..having been lately *Saddle-galled. 1898Doyle Trag. Korosko i, The saddle-galled donkeys.
1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) II. 917/1 (caption) *Saddle graft. 1959New Biol. XXX. 38 He..made a saddle graft between the two plants then, when the graft had taken, he cut transversely across the graft-union so that the wound callus formed would be a mixture of tissues from the two plants.
1824Loudon Encycl. Gard. §2032 *Saddle-grafting is performed by first cutting the top of the stock into a wedge-like form, and then splitting up the end of the scion..; it is then placed on the wedge, embracing it on each side.
1886Outing (U.S.) VIII. 7/1, I..had with me the little forty-sixty Winchester *saddle gun. 194910 Story Western May 21/1 They jerked the saddle guns from their scabbards.
1854L. A. Meall Moubray's Treat. Poultry 85 The *saddle hackle and back feathers. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 44/1 Should the saddle-hackle feathers of the Silver Spangled cock be spangled, or perfectly white? 1951W. H. Silk Bantams & Miniature Fowl iv. 26 Neck and saddle hackle are silvery-white as free from black striping as possible... Saddles and wing-bows are rich yellow or orange, shading to silvery-white in saddle-hackle. 1976Saddle hackle [see sense 7 c above].
1855Poultry Chron. III. 209/2, I consider the really perfect hen-feathered cocks vastly superior in plumage to the long-feathered *saddle-hackled.
1773Cook's 1st Voy. ii. vii. in Hawkesworth's Voy. III. 419 There is,..very near the shore, a remarkable *saddle-hill.
1662Gerbier Principles 32 To accustome the Neapolitan great *Saddle-Horse to raise their Neck. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset I. xxvii. 238 He hired a saddle-horse..and started after breakfast. 1958J. Hislop From Start to Finish viii. 67 The best way to [learn]..is to practise on a saddle-horse (a wooden stand, upon which saddles are cleaned).
1431–2Durh. Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 231 Et in j nova hakney⁓sadyll et j nova *Sadyllehouse. 1799Hull Advertiser 12 Oct. 1/1 A very excellent Mansion House with coach house, saddle house and stabling. 1870E. Peacock Ralf Skirl. III. 101 The Squire sought out Bob in the saddle⁓house.
1822Galt Gilhaize i. 3 His father having a profitable traffic in *saddle-irons and bridle-rings among the gallants of the court.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Saddle-joint, a form of joint for sheet-metal... One portion overlaps and straddles the vertical edge of the next. 1897Syd. Soc. Lex., Saddle-joint, a joint in which the articulating bony surfaces are convex in one direction and concave in the other. 1901R. Sturgis Dict. Archit. s.v. Joint, Saddle Joint. In a weathered course of masonry,..a joint formed between two adjoining stones whose ends are cut higher than the surface of the weathering between. The projections at the ends are usually sloped or rounded away from the joint..so as to shed water from the mortar.
1820C. Mathews Let. 31 Aug. in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) III. vii. 149 If you have not got any in the grounds, a *saddle-leaf tulip is beautiful. 1931W. N. Clute Common Names of Plants 39 The tulip-tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) was called saddle-leaf because the young leafblades in the bud were bent back across the petiole in such a way as to retard the growth of the tip and make it appear as if cut square across.
1832Tennyson Lady of Shalott iii. iii, Thick-jewell'd shone the *saddle-leather.
1908Animal Managem. (War Office) 32 *Saddle marks are extremely common, in fact it is the exception to find an old troop horse without them. 1963Bloodgood & Santini Horseman's Dict. 172 Saddle mark, hair left unclipped on a horse's back in the shape of a saddle; usual in clipping hunters. 1976Horse & Hound 10 Dec. 67/2 (Advt.), Bay mare... Some saddle marks.
1883Century Mag. Aug. 523/1 Mats, called ‘cocas’,..are much sought after by California ranchmen as *saddle-mats.
1626Bacon Sylva §27 The Raising gently of the Bridge of the Nose [of an infant], doth preuent the Deformity of a *Saddle Nose. 1897Syd. Soc. Lex., Saddle-nose, a nose the bridge of which has sunk, in consequence of necrosis of the nasal bones.
1598–9Hakluyt Voy. I. 101 His wife..had cut and pared her nose betweene the eyes, that she might seeme to be more flat and *saddle⁓nosed. 1742C. Jarvis Quix. I. iii. ii. 86 An Asturian wench, broad-faced, flat-headed, and saddle-nosed.
1930J. Beames Army without Banners 12 He disdained the clumsy ‘squaw notch’, where one log sits simply in a shallow groove cut in the one below, and fitted them neatly into place with the ‘*saddle notch’, a triangular ridge cut to fit closely into a deep V in the log above. 1974Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Sept. 4/2 After the logs were peeled David..saddle-notched each log and fitted them into place. 1976Amer. Speech 1973 XLVIII. 166 In the South the saddle-notch was favored, while in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwestern areas V-notching was preferred.
1967Dict. Canadianisms 651/2 Saddle notch, a *saddle-notched joint. 1977New Yorker 27 June 58/3 He and Lilly built a..cabin of unpeeled, saddle-notched logs.
1948R. T. Wilcox Mode in Footwear 165 (caption) *Saddle oxford of the period—black or brown and white. 1967A. West in Coast to Coast 1965–66 212 Onto her feet she secured a pair of saddle oxfords that were too big by wrapping the laces around her ankles.
1856Woodward Mollusca 256 P[lacuna] sella, called, from its shape, the ‘*saddle-oyster’, is remarkably striated.
1896Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 5/2 He carried the despatches in the *saddle-pin of his bicycle.
1881Greener Gun 376 The Double-grip *Saddle Pistol. Side-lever action Saddle Pistol.
1922G. N. Watson Treat. Theory Bessel Functions viii. 235 The points [u0, v0, Rf(w0)] are *saddle points, or passes, on the surface. 1946H. & B. S. Jeffreys Methods of Math. Physics xvii. 472 Through any saddle-point it will be possible to draw at least two curves such that ϕ is constant along them. 1960A. Rapoport Fights, Games, & Debates vii. 136 A saddle point is an entry in the game matrix which is the smallest in its row and the largest in its column. 1966S. Beer Decision & Control xviii. 467 In the inadequate game-theoretic model, neither side can exploit information about the other, because the game has a fixed saddle point. 1973Listener 21 June 826/2 We can conceive of a kind of space that has saddle-points in it, over which massive bodies slide in some directions more easily than in others.
1867Archaeol. Jrnl. XXIV. 246 A ‘*saddle-quern’, resembling that found at Ty Mawr, was sent to the museum of the Institute at the Hull meeting, 1867. 1872J. Evans Anc. Stone Impl. x. 226 The name of saddle-quern has been given to this form of grinding apparatus [sc. a bed-stone slightly hollowed on its upper surface and a large oval pebble for a muller]. 1938Proc. Prehist. Soc. IV. 35 The true saddle-quern..was a two-handed implement allowing only a to-and-fro movement of the upper stone. 1978A. & G. Ritchie Anc. Monuments Orkney 41 The original rubbing stones were found beside this massive saddle quern, together with a pile of crushed razor-shells.
1890A. T. Fisher Through the Stable xii. 93 *Saddle-racks are usually fixed to the walls of a saddle-room.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Saddle-rail, a railway rail which has flanges straddling a longitudinal and continuous sleeper.
Ibid., *Saddle-reed, small reeds used in the place of cord to form the edges of gig⁓saddle sides.
1860Mining Surveyors' Rep. (Mining Dept., Victoria) Aug. 216 The Wellington Reef..is what is termed by miners a *saddle reef, or, in other words, a vein of quartz branching from the cap in two distinct underlies, viz. one to the east and the other to the west. 1906J. Park Text-bk. Mining Geol. ii. 49 The gold-bearing veins at Cape Terawhiti, near Wellington, in New Zealand, are interesting examples of saddle-reefs which exhibit both an anticlinal and synclinal arrangement. 1975E. Hillary Nothing venture, Nothing Win (1977) xviii. 351 Saddle reefs of quartz in the goldfields of Victoria, Australia, and on the west coast of New Zealand.
1694Lond. Gaz. No. 3017/4 Stolen..a brown bay Mare with a bald Face, *Saddle-rings [etc.].
1852Lantern (N.Y.) II. 158/1 Oyster House sages..acknowledge that for a consideration they will puff anything from *Saddle Rock Oysters to Fancy soap. 1865J. H. Browne Four Years in Secessia 279 The stewing of ‘Saddle-Rocks’ in a chafing dish, or the preparation of a lobster salad, was as far as I had ever advanced in the mysteries of the cuisine. 1881E. Ingersoll Oyster-Industry 244 Fancy Oysters.—In New York, these are ‘Saddle Rocks’, ‘Blue Points’, etc. Ibid. 247 Saddle Rock Oysters, a trade name in New York for the largest and finest oysters.
1875Knight Dict. Mech., *Saddle-roof, a double gabled roof.
1883B'ham Weekly Post 18 Aug. 8/6 He procured a loaded gun from the *saddle-room.
1679Rec. Court of New Castle on Delaware (1904) 361, 2 *saddle Ruggs & 3 old Blancketts. 1931A. U. Dilley Oriental Rugs & Carpets Pl. 20 (caption) Kerman Saddle Rug.
1898H. S. Canfield Maid of Frontier 185 His horse came up to his ranch..with the gun still in the *saddle scabbard. 1944R. F. Adams Western Words 137/1 Saddle scabbard, a heavy saddle-leather case in which to carry a rifle or Winchester when riding. The gun fits in as far as the hammer, leaving the stock exposed. 1973R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led vi. xviii. 280 He couldn't get at his rifle which was in the saddle scabbard.
1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 527/1 The majority of the vessels, after prosecuting the ‘*saddle’ sealing at Newfoundland or Greenland, proceed direct to Disco.
1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 594/2 The limestone is uplifted into a *saddle⁓shaped or anticlinal ridge. 1870Rolleston Anim. Life 17 Being concave from side to side and therefore saddle-shaped. 1900B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms, Saddle-shaped, applied to such valves of Diatoms as those of Coscinodiscus. 1950David & Browne Geol. Commonwealth of Austral. II. xxvii. 176 A few of the ore-bodies appear to be saddle-shaped.
1863J. G. Wood Nat. Hist. III. 419 *Saddle-shell, Anomia ephippium.
1941J. C. Furnass How Amer. Lives 272 You could paint an accurate oil portrait from those data alone, right down to the socks and *saddle shoes. 1958Listener 31 July 157/2 A young American boy and girl, dressed in teenage style of blue jeans, suede saddle shoes, and peach-coloured polo shirts. 1974D. Ramsay No Cause to Kill i. 6 Saddle shoes. Brown and white... Of all things! Who wore saddle shoes nowadays?
1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 280/2 *Saddle shoulder sleeve, sleeve with shoulder extended into neckline somewhat like raglan, but square-cut in ‘saddle’ effect. 1969Sears Catal. Spring/Summer 20 Classic Cardigan... Saddle shoulders add a well tailored look. 1978Detroit Free Press 2 Apr. (Detroit Suppl.) 21 (Advt.), Crew neck pullover with saddle shoulder.
1823Galt Entail vii, Weel do I ken what it is to be *saddle-sick mysel'. 1844Mrs. Carlyle Let. 7 July, New Lett. & Mem. 1903 I. 140 The girls were dreadfully saddle sick. For me, my old habit of riding, I suppose, had saved me.
1615Crooke Body of Man 1 The inward face of the Liuer which is the lower, is..hollow, vnequall, and is called the Simus or *saddle side, that it may giue way to the stomacke strutting..with plenty of meat.
1610Markham Maister-p. ii. xliv. 286 Of Wennes or Knobs growing about the *saddle skirts. a1656Ussher Ann. vi. (1658) 153 Pharnabazus..rid his horse into the very sea, up to his saddle-skirts. a1725Thoresby Diary (1830) I. 295 We missed the deepest of the Wash..though we rode to the saddle-skirts for a considerable way.
1907Daily Chron. 22 Oct. 8/4 Nicholas *saddle⁓sore by this time, and the mare too weary to shy. 1956R. Braddon Nancy Wake xv. 178 It's just that damned bicycle. I'm so saddle-sore I could die. 1975Times 8 Feb. 10/5 What if riding pales and saddlesore guests seek other diversions?
1685Lond. Gaz. No. 2062/4 Lost a black Coach Mare.., hath a small *Saddle-speck.
1668Ibid. No. 272/4 A Baye Mare, no white, save some *Saddle spots.
1676Ibid. No. 1098/4 Stolen.., a large brown bay Coach Gelding,..*saddle⁓spotted.
1876Morris Sigurd ii. 133 And his war-gear clanged and tinkled as he leapt to the *saddle-stead.
1843Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 320/1 Modern gables too are generally awkwardly terminated at the eaves by..*saddle⁓stones.
1932G. M. Boumphrey Story of Wheel 42 The ‘*saddle-stone’, which had a hollow face in which a smaller stone was rubbed backwards and forwards.
1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports 583/2 Hooks and *saddle-stools, or brackets, for the saddles or harness.
1871Young Gentleman's Ann. Dec. 28 Other engines of this class [sc. tank-engines], however, carry their water in a tank (called a *saddle-tank) which rests on the top of the boiler. 1888Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin., Saddle Tank Engine, a locomotive engine in which the water tank envelops the top and sides of the boiler.
1933Ann. Surg. XCVIII. 262 At about the point of bifurcation of the deep and superficial femoral is a constricted portion with a *saddle thrombus which shows beginning organization. 1937Ibid. CVI. 908 The..patient was operated upon rather late, after the saddle thrombus developed, by the transabdominal route.
1681S. Colvil Whigs' Supplic. (1741) 13 A Pistol..at either *Saddle tore. Note. Saddle tore, Saddle Bow.
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §913/10 *Saddle..tramp, a cowboy who rides from ranch to ranch living on Western hospitality. 1962E. Lucia Klondike Kate 7 Most of them [sc. prostitutes] led wretched lives,..attached to gamblers, card sharps..saddle tramps, gun-slingers and rogues. 1979Radio Times 5–11 May 23/2 Kirk Douglas back on the range for King Vidor, in the one about the saddle tramp up against the barbed wire.
1935Stočes & White Structural Geol. 293 Saddle *veins are filled openings..which were similarly formed in the arches and troughs of folded beds. 1977A. Hallam Planet Earth 314/3 Saddle veins are lens-shaped, concave below and convex above.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy 253 The most important circuit is generally worked upon the *saddle wire. 1911Webster, Saddle wire stitch. 1948R. R. Karch Graphic Arts Procedures xii. 301 Saddle-Wire bound booklets are the simplest and cheapest in form... The cover and pages are held by two or more stitches on saddle-wire booklets, which allows them to lie flat and open. 1967V. Strauss Printing Industry x. 659/1 Saddle wire stitching produces a completely flat-opening book.
1967Karch & Buber Offset Processes xii. 492 *Saddle-wired books lie flat when open, and may be folded upon themselves.
Add:[II.] [5.] m. Mus. On stringed instruments: (a) [lit. tr. G. Sattel] = nut n.1 14 a (rare); (b) the slight ridge at the base of an instrument, preventing wear on the belly, over which the gut securing the tail-piece to the end-pin passes; (c) an adjustable ridge on the bridge of a guitar which determines the length of the strings or their height above the fingerboard.
[1908R. Dunstan Cycl. Dict. Mus. 355/1 Sattel (G.), ‘a saddle’. The ‘nut’ (of a violin, &c.).] 1941H. Panum Stringed Instruments Middle Ages 187 On their way from the tailpiece to the pegs, the strings on bowed instruments..just before they reach the pegbox..cross a narrow strip of hard wood—the saddle or nut—found on all fingerboard instruments. 1964S. Marcuse Mus. Instruments 573/1 A low saddle assists the tailpiece in keeping clear of the belly. 1979C. Ford Making Mus. Instruments iii. 87 The purpose of the tail-gut saddle is to carry the tail gut over the edge of the belly. 1984New Grove Dict. Mus. Instruments II. 101/1 The modern bridge, with the strings passing over the saddle to be tied to a rectangular block..is also attributable to Torres, and has become standard since his time. 1986Making Music Apr. 29/2 If the note is sharper than the harmonic move the bridge saddle back... If the note is flat move the saddle forwards. 1989Guitar Player Mar. 19/1 The line of the fretboard should be..right where the saddle starts coming out.
▪ II. saddle, v.|ˈsæd(ə)l|
Forms: 1 sadolian, sadelian, 3–6 sadel, (6 -ell), 4–5 sadyl(l, (5 -ylle), 4–7 sadle, (5 sadulle, sadil, 6 -ill), 6– saddle.
[OE. sadolian, f. sadol saddle n.; cf. MLG. sadeln, MDu. sadelen, Du. zadelen, OHG. satalôn (MHG. satelen, mod.G. satteln), ON. sǫðla (Sw. sadla, Da. sadle).]
1. a. trans. To put a riding-saddle upon (a horse or other animal); also to saddle up. Also absol.
c1000ælfric Gram. xxviii. (Z.) 165 Sterno..ic sadeliᵹe hors. c1205Lay. 13512 Fortiger hæhte his sweines sadeli his blonken. a1300K. Horn 763 (Cambr. MS.) Horn sadelede his stede. c1320Sir Beues 757 (MS. A.) Beues let sadlen is ronsi. 1388Wyclif 1 Kings xiii. 13 And he seide to hise sones, Sadle ȝe an asse to me. And whanne thei hadden sadlid, he stiede, and ȝede after the man of God. c1420Sir Amadace (Camden) xxviii, Quen Sir Amadace hade etun, To sadulle his horse was noȝte forȝetun. 1485Rutland Papers (Camden) 4 A spare coursar lad in hand..sadlet with a saddell of estate. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. iv. 69 b, He sadled vp his horse, and roade in post away. 1637J. Williams Holy Table 206 What needs the Writer saddle up his Horse. 1761Gray Odin 2 Uprose the king..And saddled strait his coal-black steed. 1839–55W. Irving Wolfert's Roost 47, I almost determined..to..saddle my horse, and ride off. 1901Daily Chron. 27 Aug. 5/5, I then asked him to saddle-up my horse while I was dressing.
†b. intr. or absol. To inure a colt to the saddle.
1656Markham's Perfect Horseman 19 When to Saddle.
c. to saddle and bridle fig., to subject to control.
1864Lowell Fireside Trav. 133 The cover [of the kettle] was chattering with the escaping steam, which had thus vainly begged of all men to be saddled and bridled, till James Watt one day happened to overhear it.
d. S. Afr. to saddle off = offsaddle, off-saddle v.
1835J. W. D. Moodie Ten Yrs. S. Afr. I. 65 He..asked us if we would ‘saddle off’ our horses.
e. trans. To enter (a horse that one has trained) in a race.
1928Daily Mail 25 July 14/2 Scott will not saddle Lamintone for the Church House Handicap Plate (2.30) at Liverpool. 1947Sun (Baltimore) 11 June 17/4 Palmer Sowers, of Washington, saddled two winners on the program and might have made it three had not Jockey J. Keenan lost a stirrup in the final drive of the second race. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 32/3 Trainer Glen Magnusson..saddled three successive winners. 1976Southern Even. Echo (Southampton) 13 Nov. 15/3 The Bishop Auckland trainer should start successfully by saddling Clever Prince to win the Threlkeld Handicap Chase.
†2. trans. To ride, bestride (an animal). Also transf. Obs.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. 18 b, Take that benefyce to you (sayth he to the priest) but saddle nomore the nonne. 1585Jas. I Ess. Poesie (Arb.) 68 Vpon Alhallow ene, Quhen our gude nichtbors rydis..Some sadland a sho ape,.. Some hotcheand on a hemp stalk. 1598R. Dallington Meth. Trav. X 2 b, No maruell then, the bridle being left in their owne [French wives'] hands, though sometimes they be saddled, and their husbands know not. 1713Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 184 Its lower Leaves are like the Garden Poppy, which higher saddle or ride the Stalk.
3. intr. To get into the saddle. Orig. in Colonial use, to saddle up.
1835A. Burnes Trav. Bokhara (ed. 2) II. 198 We dressed ourselves..and saddled at three p.m. 1849E. E. Napier Excurs. S. Africa II. 12 Another term of Colonial import is that of ‘saddling-up’, and ‘off-saddling’. 1863W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting ii. 33 We saddled and went in pursuit. 1865Kingsley Herew. I. i. 61 Ay, every churl who owns a manor, must needs arm and saddle and levy war. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 206 Bothwell, myself, and the six troopers, saddled up and departed.
4. a. trans. To charge or load with (a burden); now only fig. to load with (something) as a burden.
1693Dryden Persius v. 207 The Slaves thy Baggage pack, Each saddled with his Burden on his Back. 1728Vanbrugh & Cibber Prov. Husb. 1, His Estate..was left him saddled with two Joyntures, and two weighty Mortgages upon it. 1731Bailey vol. II. s.v., To saddle,..to embarrass, as to saddle a Cause. 1767A. Young Farmer's Lett. to People 162 But Mr. Justice..saddles the parish with whatever burthen he thinks proper. 1775Sheridan Duenna i. iv, I'll saddle him with this scrape. 1837Lockhart Scott (1839) III. ix. 295 The earnest wish of Scott and Ballantyne to saddle the publisher of the new poem with part of their old ‘quire stock’. 1858Surtees Ask Mamma xliv. 196 The chances then, are, that he is saddled with a sort of old man of the sea. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. iv. 157 We are perhaps inclined to saddle Scott unconsciously with the sins of a later generation. 1895Law Times Rep. LXXIII. 691/1 Otherwise a testator would be able to saddle people with duties of an onerous description.
b. ? To secure for (a burdensome task). rare—1.
1826Scott Jrnl. 25 Oct., Sotheby..endeavoured to saddle me for a review of his polyglot Virgil.
5. To put (a burden) upon (another's back).
1808Cobbett Pol. Reg. XIV. 547 The men..who, if they serve us but for a few years, are saddled upon our devoted ass-like backs for life. 1812Sporting Mag. XL. 153, I should not wonder if that Bully Mitchell saddles this poisoning upon me. 1820L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. vi. 158 The whole of the Bergami family had..been saddled upon the Princess. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet III. 248, I found her only too eager to marry anyone upon whom she could saddle her debts.
6. a. Masonry. To work (a joint) so as to form a ‘saddle’ projecting above the horizontal surface of the stones joined. b. Carpentry. To join or fit together by halving.
1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 311 A process by work⁓men called saddling the joints. 1897Westm. Gaz. 3 Sept. 2/1 These consist of one log laid upon another, saddled in at the corners.
c. To attach after the manner of a saddle.
1831J. J. Audubon Ornith. Biogr. I. 303 The nests were fixed to a horizontal bough, but were not saddled upon it so deeply as those of the Wood Thrush are. 1881Amer. Naturalist XV. 217 Our nest..was saddled to a horizontal limb after the fashion of our wood pewee. 1940Bull. U.S. Nat. Museum No. 176. 321 It was about 30 feet from the ground, saddled on a horizontal branch of a maple over the trail.
7. To bend downwards in the middle.
1803Sporting Mag. XXI. 327 Saddling the cards..is bending the sixes, sevens, eights, and nines, in the middle longways. 1880Standard 10 Dec., Walls are cracked and roofs ‘saddled’ in every direction.
8. (See quot.)
1731Bailey vol. II. s.v., To saddle,..to furnish, as to saddle a spit.
†9. Comb.: saddle-goose, a nickname for a fool; saddle-nag, a stable-boy, groom. Obs.
1526Skelton Magnyf. 1834 Sym Sadylgose was my syer, and Dawcocke my dame. 1646J. Hall Poems 7 Who would employ his Sadle-nagg to come And hold a trencher in the Dining-roome? |