saddlery.html - See: IN THE SADDLE.

saddlery.html - {n.} A white shoe with a black or brown piece of leather shaped like a saddle across the top of the shoe. * /Mary wore bobby socks and saddle shoes./

saddlery.html - {adj. phr.} Burdened with; handicapped. * /The business was so saddled with debt that the new owner had a hard time making a go of it for a couple of years./

saddlery.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a seat of leather etc., usu. raised at the front and rear, fastened on a horse etc. for riding.
2 a seat for the rider of a bicycle etc.
3 a joint of meat consisting of the two loins.
4 a ridge rising to a summit at each end.
5 the part of a draught-horse's harness to which the shafts are attached.
6 a part of an animal's back resembling a saddle in shape or marking.
7 the rear part of a male fowl's back.
8 a support for a cable or wire on top of a suspension-bridge, pier, or telegraph-pole.
9 a fireclay bar for supporting ceramic ware in a kiln.

--v.

tr.
1 put a saddle on (a horse etc.).
2 a (foll. by with) burden (a person) with a task, responsibility, etc. b (foll. by on, upon) impose (a burden) on a person.
3 (of a trainer) enter (a horse) for a race.

in the saddle 1 mounted.
2 in office or control. saddle-bag 1 each of a pair of bags laid across a horse etc. behind the saddle.
2 a bag attached behind the saddle of a bicycle or motor cycle. saddle-bow the arched front or rear of a saddle. saddle-cloth a cloth laid on a horse's back under the saddle. saddle-horse a horse for riding. saddle-sore chafed by riding on a saddle. saddle stitch a stitch of thread or a wire staple passed through the centre of a magazine or booklet. saddle-tree 1 the frame of a saddle.
2 a tulip-tree (with saddle-shaped leaves).

saddleless adj. [OE sadol, sadul f. Gmc]

saddlery.html - n.
1 Archit. a tower-roof with two opposite gables.
2 a hill with a concave upper outline.
3 a black pig with a white stripe across the back.
4 any of various birds with a saddle-like marking esp. a New Zealand bird, Philesturnus carunculatus.

saddlebacked adj.

saddlery.html - n.
a maker of or dealer in saddles and other equipment for horses.