SADDLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saddle mean? 

• SADDLE (noun)
  The noun SADDLE has 6 senses:

1. a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal

2. a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)

3. cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins

4. a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe

5. a seat for the rider of a bicycle

6. posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl

  Familiarity information: SADDLE used as a noun is common.

• SADDLE (verb)
  The verb SADDLE has 3 senses:

1. put a saddle on

2. load or burden; encumber

3. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

  Familiarity information: SADDLE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SADDLE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A seat for the rider of a horse or other animal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

seat (any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit))

Meronyms (parts of "saddle"):

pommel; saddlebow (handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle)

stirrup; stirrup iron (support consisting of metal loops into which rider's feet go)

cantle (the back of a saddle seat)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "saddle"):

English cavalry saddle; English saddle (a saddle having a steel cantle and pommel and no horn)

packsaddle (a saddle for pack animals to which loads can be attached)

sidesaddle (a saddle for a woman; rider sits with both feet on the same side of the horse)

stock saddle; Western saddle (an ornamented saddle used by cowboys; has a high horn to hold the lariat)

Derivation:

saddle (put a saddle on)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

saddle; saddleback

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

mountain pass; notch; pass (the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

cut; cut of meat (a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A piece of leather across the instep of a shoe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

piece of leather (a separate part consisting of leather)

Holonyms ("saddle" is a part of...):

shoe (footwear shaped to fit the foot (below the ankle) with a flexible upper of leather or plastic and a sole and heel of heavier material)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A seat for the rider of a bicycle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bicycle seat; saddle

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

seat (any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit))

Holonyms ("saddle" is a part of...):

bicycle; bike; cycle; wheel (a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("saddle" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("saddle" is a part of...):

domestic fowl; fowl; poultry (a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl)

back; dorsum (the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine)

• SADDLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they saddle    ... he / she / it saddles   
Past simple: saddled   
Past participle: saddled   
-ing form: saddling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Put a saddle on

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

saddle the horses

Hypernyms (to "saddle" is one way to...):

attach (cause to be attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Antonym:

unsaddle (remove the saddle from)

Derivation:

saddle (a seat for the rider of a horse or other animal)

saddlery (gear for a horse)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Load or burden; encumber

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

he saddled me with that heavy responsibility

Hypernyms (to "saddle" is one way to...):

burden; burthen; weight; weight down (weight down with a load)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

burden; charge; saddle

Context example:

He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend

Hypernyms (to "saddle" is one way to...):

command; require (make someone do something)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "saddle"):

overburden (burden with too much work or responsibility)

bear down (exert a force or cause a strain upon)

deluge; flood out; overwhelm (charge someone with too many tasks)

adjure (command solemnly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody with something

 Context examples 

The horse stood saddled and waiting at the door.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

He is a valiant man, but I fear that he is scarce firm enough upon the saddle to bear the thrust of such a tilter as this stranger promises to be.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the time I had told mother of my purpose they were all in the saddle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

But when the son looked at the horse, he thought it a great pity to put the leathern saddle upon it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The term usually refers to abnormally increased curvature (hollow back, saddle back, swayback).

(Lordosis, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Signs and symptoms include irritability, fever, failure to thrive, saddle nose, cutaneous rash, and pneumonia.

(Congenital Syphilis, NCI Thesaurus)

To understand more about the mechanisms that create the saddle shapes, the researchers created a theoretical model that could predict the behavior of the origami.

(Saddle-shaped origami enables new microelectronic applications, National Science Foundation)

There were six troopers and six of us, so it was a close thing, but we emptied four of their saddles at the first volley.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I described, as well as I could, our way of riding; the shape and use of a bridle, a saddle, a spur, and a whip; of harness and wheels.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

"What possessed you to tell those stories about my saddle, and the hats and boots, and all the rest of it?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)