saddle quern (sadlkwern)

A form of quern the bed stone of which is hollowed on its upper surface to receive a kind of stone roller, which was used with a rocking and rubbing motion to grind the grain. See the upper example in the cut under quern. Saddle-querns of the same character occur also in France. Evans , Ancient Stone Implements, p. 226. saddler (sadʻlėr), n . [ sadiler , sadlare, sadyller (= MLG. sadeler = MHG. sateler , G. sattler ), a saddler; as saddle + -er1.] 1. One whose occupation is the making of saddles. To pay the saddler for my mistre ' crupper. Shak., C. of E., i. 2. 56. 2. The harp-seal, Phoca ( Pagophilus ) grænlan dica, when adolescent. - Saddlers' knife. See knife. Saddlers' pincers. See pincers. saddle-rail (sad 1-ral), n. A railway-rail of inverted-U section straddling a continuous longitudinal sleeper.