单词 | saddle |
释义 | Word Frequency saddle(ˈsædəl) noun 1. a seat for a rider, usually made of leather, placed on a horse's back and secured with a girth under the belly 2. a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc, made of leather or steel 3. a back pad forming part of the harness of a packhorse 4. anything that resembles a saddle in shape, position, or function 5. a cut of meat, esp mutton, consisting of part of the backbone and both loins 6. the part of a horse or similar animal on which a saddle is placed 7. the part of the back of a domestic chicken that is nearest to the tail 8. civil engineering a block on top of one of the towers of a suspension bridge that acts as a bearing surface over which the cables or chains pass 9. engineering the carriage that slides on the bed of a lathe and supports the slide rest, tool post, or turret 10. the nontechnical name for clitellum 11. another name for col (sense 1) 12. a raised piece of wood or metal for covering a doorsill 13. in the saddle verb 14. (sometimes foll by up) to put a saddle on (a horse) 15. (intransitive) to mount into the saddle 16. (transitive) to burden; charge I didn't ask to be saddled with this job Derived forms saddleless (ˈsaddleless) adjective saddle-like (ˈsaddle-ˌlike) adjective Word origin Old English sadol, sædel; related to Old Norse sothull, Old High German satul |
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