单词 | saddlebag |
释义 | saddlebagn. 1. a. A bag carried beside or behind a saddle; esp. either of a pair of bags linked together so as to enable them to be laid across the back of a horse or other animal, one bag hanging on either side. Cf. pannier n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > saddle-bags sumpter1548 alforja1608 sumptery1620 saddlebag1675 jag1787 saddle pocket1857 kyack1901 1675 W. Cunningham Diary 2 June (1887) 54 Sent to Glasgow for 4 saddle baggs, 8 s. a1725 T. Wilson Jrnl. Life, Trav. & Labours of Love (1728) 48 We contentedly took our Travel..into the Woods, having our Saddles, Saddle-Bags, and great Coats upon our Shoulders. 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 137 What he had mistaken for them [sc. the sermons] in the Saddle-Bags being no other than three Shirts, a pair of Shoes, and some other Necessaries. View more context for this quotation 1773 H. Finlay Jrnl. 13 Nov. (1867) 43 The rider had saddle bags quite full besides. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 542 Manufactures of leather..holsters, saddle-bags [etc.]. 1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 43 He..put his hand into his saddle-bag, and eat a morsel of bread and a date which were among his provisions. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) i. 67 The great saddle bags act like sails to the camels. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 20 A visit..which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. 1901 L. W. Duncan & C. F. Scott Hist. Allen & Woodson Counties, Kansas 619 The doctor of 1858,..with saddle-bags like paniers to a pack mule, would make a strange comparison with the well-dressed and well-barbered M.D. of the present era. 1946 National Geographic Mag. July 42/1 There was a rude woodcut of a postrider on horseback, with saddlebags behind for carrying mail matter. 2007 Star News (Wilmington, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 1 Apr. 1 b Horsemen would ride up to his store on weekends, tie up to a hitching post and fill their saddlebags with beer. b. Any similar bag designed to be carried on a bicycle or motorcycle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > parts and equipment of cycles > accessories bicycle pump1892 bike pump1896 saddlebag1920 pannier bag1939 1920 Cycling 12 Aug. p. xvii/3 (advt.) Few pigskin saddle bags, 9 by 6 by 4, 17s 6d, post 9d. 1949 J. Hawkes Cannibal 190 Fegelein, who was rummaging through the motorcycle saddlebags, heard my footsteps returning to the door, and became alert. 1973 R. T. Way Bicycle 63/2 For normal day-to-day riding, a small saddlebag is all that is needed—it only has to take a cape, cap, tools, snack and camera. 2000 R. Barger et al. Hell's Angel iv. 54 The FXRT was designed as a touring bike with saddlebags and a fairing. 2. A chair upholstered with saddlebag carpeting (see Compounds 2). rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [noun] > other chairs farthingale chair1552 side chair1582 high chair1609 scroll chair1614 Turkey chair1683 curule chair1695 reading chair1745 rush-bottom1754 conversation-chair1793 Windsor tub1800 Trafalgar chair1808 beehive-chair1816 nursing chair1826 Hitchcockc1828 toilet seat1829 kangaroo1834 prie-dieu1838 tub-chair1839 barrel-chair1850 Cromwell chair1868 office chair1874 swivel-chair1885 steamer-chair1886 suggan chair1888 lawn chair1895 saddle seat1895 Bombay chair1896 veranda-chair1902 X chair1904 Yorkshire chair1906 three legs and a swinger1916 saddlebag1919 riempie stool1933 gaspipe chair1934 slipper chair1938 Eames chair1946 contour chair1948 sling-back1948 sling chair1957 booster chair1960 booster seat1967 beanbag1969 sack chair1970 papasan1980 Muskoka chair1987 1919 ‘C. Dane’ Legend 82 ‘There's your chair. Isn't that always your chair?’.. But he did not take the saddle-bag near Anita's own seat. 3. slang (originally North American). Usually in plural. Excess or unwanted fat on the hips or outer thighs. ΚΠ 1971 Winnipeg Free Press 19 Aug. 26/2 We call them saddle bags—a common feminine affliction which shows up in a bathing suit. 1981 J. Fonda Workout Bk. (1982) 52 Something certainly happens to those saddle bags,..love handles and plain old lumps. 2005 Cosmopolitan Aug. 141/2 I had fat drained from under my bum to get rid of my saddlebags. Compounds C1. U.S. regional (southern). attributive. Designating a type of small house consisting of two rooms divided by a central chimney or open passageway. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1862 Circular 22 May 59/3 It is not difficult to imagine..a mansion of taste rise on the site of every saddle-bag cabin. 1905 Outing Oct. 124/2 What is known in the South as ‘the saddle-bag house’, with an open gallery between the two compartments. 2007 Athens (Georgia) Banner-Herald (Nexis) 14 Jan. The dirt street once lined with saddlebag houses for the people who worked in the lumber..mills. C2. attributive. Designating a type of patterned carpeting, chiefly used to upholster furniture, having designs reminiscent of those on decorative saddlebags traditional in parts of Africa and the Middle East. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > furnished > upholstered in a specific manner well-upholstered1849 saddlebag1882 1882 Daily News 30 May 5/7 Settees and easy-chairs upholstered in what is known as the Persian saddle-bag pattern. 1900 ‘F. Warden’ Plain Miss Cray 80 There was..a saddle-bag couch and two big easy-chairs. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 125 A saddle-bag suite. 1948 Times 20 Feb. 1 A pair of Persian Runners, £40; a Saddle Bag Rug, £30. 1970 Lima (Ohio) News 17 Sept. b12 Early American living room suite..Directors Chairs, Saddle bag chairs, love seats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see alsoalso refers to : saddle-bagv. < n.1675 see also |
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