Saddle

sad′l, n. a seat or pad, generally of leather, for a horse's back: anything like a saddle, as a saddle of mutton, veal, or venison—a butcher's cut, including a part of the backbone with the ribs on one side: a part of the harne used for drawing a vehicle: the seat on a bicycle: ( naut. ) a block of wood fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.— v.t. to put a saddle on, to load: to encumber.— n. Sadd′le-back , a hill or its summit when shaped like a saddle: a raccoon oyster: the great black-backed gull: the harp-seal: a variety of domestic geese: the larva of the bombycid moth: ( arch it. ) a coping thicker in the middle than at the edges.— adj. Sadd′le-backed , having a low back and an elevated head and neck.— ns. Sadd′le-bag , one of two bags united by straps for carrying on horseback; Sadd′le-bar , a bar for sustaining gla in a stained-gla window; Sadd′le-blank′et , a small blanket folded under a saddle; Sadd′le-bow , the arched front of a saddle from which the weapon often hung; Sadd′le-cloth , the housing or cloth placed under a saddle.— n.pl. Sadd′le-feath′ers , the long slender feathers which droop from the saddle or rump of the domestic cock.— ns. Sadd′le-girth , a band pa ing round the body of a horse to hold the saddle in its place; Sadd′le-horse , a horse suitable for riding; Sadd′le-joint , a joint made in plates of sheet-iron so that the margins interlock: ( an at. ) a joint admitting movement in every direction except axial rotation; Sadd′le-lap , the skirt of a saddle; Sadd′le-plate , the bent plate which forms the arch of the furnace in locomotive steam-boilers; Sadd′le-quern , an ancient quern for grinding grain; Sadd′ler , a maker of saddles: the harp-seal; Sadd′le-rock , a variety of the oyster; Sadd′le-roof , a roof having two gables; Sadd′ler-cor′poral , a non-commi ioned officer in the household cavalry, with the charge of the saddles; Sadd′ler-ser′geant , a sergeant in the cavalry who has charge of the saddlers: ( U.S. ) a non-commi ioned staff-officer of a cavalry regiment; Sadd′lery , occupation of a saddler: materials for saddles: articles sold by a saddler.— adjs. Sadd′le-shaped , shaped like a saddle: ( bot. ) bent down at the sides: ( geol. ) bent down at each side of a ridge; Sadd′le-sick , galled with much riding.— ns. Sadd′le-tree , the frame of a saddle.— Put the saddle on the right horse , to impute blame where it is deserved. [A.S. sadol , sadel ; cf. Dut. zadel , Ger. sattel .]