Saddle \Sad"dle\, n. [OE. sadel, AS. sadol; akin to D. zadel, G. sattel, OHG. satal, satul, Icel. s["o][eth]ull, Dan. & Sw. sadel; cf. Russ. siedlo; all perh. ultimately from the root of E. sit.] 1. A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
2. A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
3. A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
4. (Naut.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
5. (Mach.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
6. (Zo["o]l.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
7. (Arch.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
8. (Phys. Geog.) A ridge connected two higher elevations; a low point in the crest line of a ridge; a col. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
9. (Mining) A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, esp. in Australia. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Saddle bar} (Arch.), one the small iron bars to which the lead panels of a glazed window are secured. --Oxf. Gloss.
{Saddle gall} (Far.), a sore or gall upon a horse's back, made by the saddle.
{Saddle girth}, a band passing round the body of a horse to hold the saddle in its place.
{saddle horse}, a horse suitable or trained for riding with a saddle.
{Saddle joint}, in sheet-metal roofing, a joint formed by bending up the edge of a sheet and folding it downward over the turned-up edge of the next sheet.
{Saddle roof}, (Arch.), a roof having two gables and one ridge; -- said of such a roof when used in places where a different form is more common; as, a tower surmounted by a saddle roof. Called also {saddleback roof}.
{Saddle shell} (Zo["o]l.), any thin plicated bivalve shell of the genera {Placuna} and {Anomia}; -- so called from its shape. Called also {saddle oyster}.
Saddle \Sad"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Saddled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Saddling}.] [AS. sadelian.] 1. To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding. ``saddle my horse.'' --Shak.
Abraham rose up early, . . . and saddled his ass. --Gen. xxii. 3.
2. Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
They expect hard work from their children, but they don't saddle them with household chores or afterschool jobs.
Union pilots at Northwest Airlines on Monday threatened to strike if its parent company, NWA Inc., is taken over by a buyer who would saddle the carrier with debt.
Under the guise of "deficit-neutrality," these bills raise taxes to bankroll start-up costs for programs that often aid those who are not truly in need of them, then saddle future budgets with billions of dollars of additional deficits.
A peasant guide takes a last swig of the moonshine that dangles in a plastic jug from his saddle and sets off with two reporters for a rendezvous with Shorty.
Atop the rooster-comb ridge, a dozen Karen soldiers crouch behind rocks overlooking a saddle where the Burmese have dug in. Rifle bullets whine over the outpost where the soldiers have already spent 10 difficult days.
The agents watched as Mr. Allen later left the meeting, walked out to his motorcycle, fumbled around in his saddle bags and then left.
As we ambled through the stark landscape, the only sounds came from the creak of the leather saddle and the camel farting and panting.
Cyclist Greg LeMond will display his speed in the saddle in a $12-million advertising campaign for fast-food tacos.
There's an importance of getting back into the saddle," Prout said from his office in the control tower.
In the past, auditors have argued that making them police corporate behavior would harm their relationships with clients and saddle them with an unfair burden of responsibility for the acts of others.
Rowe, a former world champion saddle bronc rider, is looking for a commercial formula for raising bucking bulls on a farm near Dickson.
And now Son of Bailout, the Bush administration's request for another $78 billion to keep the effort going, shows signs of degenerating into a partisan mess, with each party trying to saddle the other with the public outrage over the S&L debacle.
"If there is a successor regime, the last thing we should want to do is saddle it with heavy claims," says William Quandt, a Mideast expert at the Brookings Institution.
"Hopefully he will be able to go back to work and get back in the saddle soon," Carla Schalman said Wednesday.
France, however, the EC's largest and most competitive producer, fears that softer price cuts will saddle its farms with quotas to restrain production, such as the increased set-aside threatened by Mr MacSharry.
But the Kelly is a bag for the woman of purpose: big enough to cram in A4 papers and bulky enough to thwack any mugger. The Kelly has its roots in the 1930s when Emile Hermes designed a daintier version of one of his best-selling saddle bags.
Perhaps he should take a few tips from his loyal son-in-law, show jumper John Whitaker, on how to stay in the saddle.
Like management's plan, the pilots' proposal would saddle the company with heavy debt.
A stalemate could saddle the party with a weak, compromise candidate.
While Bush takes over the reins of power, Reagan plans to saddle a gift from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
"I'm going to go home tonight, get a good night's sleep, get up tomorrow, saddle my horse and go riding with my daughter," Stuckey said.
Entitled 'saddle of hare Pojarski' and based on a recipe that was a great favourite with Tsar Nicholas I, it resembled a chess board with pyramid tops of cabbage and 'castles' made of red cabbage filled with a hare mousse.
It will saddle the already highly leveraged Kroger with steep debt.
"A custom built saddle can easily run $2,000," he said. "And depending on who makes it, it can be two, three times that.
Though Liggett is promoting Pyramid, a new low-price cigarette, its hallmark brands such as L&M, Lark and Chesterfield seem like icons from the era of tail fins and saddle shoes.
Nearly three months in a wheelchair and another two months of rehabilitation were required to get him back in the saddle.
"We have been leaning forward in the saddle," Col. Beau Bergeron said as 900 soldiers from Fort Lewis, Wash., arrived Wednesday to help fight a 247,000-acre blaze in west-central Montana.
The monument, which included a bronze plaque, was topped by an iron statue of a horse with its head lowered and its saddle empty.
Buyers can pick up Mr. Connally's desk during his tenure as governor or a parade saddle bearing the Navy seal, which he used, or one bearing the Texas seal, which he didn't.
When regulators seized Vernon, they found it owned 17th Century castle doors, various expensive art objects and even a silver-studded saddle purchased by Dixon on various shopping trips.