sad·dle
(săd́l)
[Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol.]
noun
- A leather seat for a rider, secured on an animal's back by a girth. Also called rig
- Similar tack used for attaching a pack to an animal.
- The padded part of a driving harness fitting over a horse's back.
- The seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
- Something shaped like a saddle.
- A cut of meat consisting of part of the backbone and both loins.
- The lower part of a male fowl's back.
- A saddle-shaped depression in the ridge of a hill.
- A ridge between two peaks.
verb: -dled, -dling, -dles.
transitive verb
- To put a saddle onto.
- To load or burden; encumber: They were saddled with heavy expenses.
intransitive verb
- To saddle a horse.
- To get into a saddle.
idioms
- in the saddle
- In control; dominant.
