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saddle

The English word “saddle” has 32 meanings listed here.

  1. A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body.
  2. A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
  3. A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
  4. The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
  5. Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
  6. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
  7. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
  8. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
  9. The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
  10. An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
  11. An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
  12. The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
  13. A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
  14. A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  15. The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
  16. The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
  17. The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
  18. In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
  19. A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
  20. A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
  21. To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
  22. To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
  23. To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
  24. Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
  25. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
  26. To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
  27. To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
  28. To cut a saddle-shaped notch in (a log or other piece of wood) so it can fit together with other such logs or pieces; also, to fit (logs or other pieces of wood) together with this method.
  29. To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
  30. Often followed by up.
  31. To put a saddle on an animal.
  32. Of a person: to get into a saddle.
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