saddle

Noun

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 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. (broadly) 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.
7. (broadly) 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.
8. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
9. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
10. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
11. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
12. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
13. (Australia) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
14. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
15. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
16. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
17. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
18. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
19. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
20. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
21. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
22. (US) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
23. (US) Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
24. A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.

Verb

1. (transitive) To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
2. (transitive) To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
3. (figuratively, transitive) To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
4. (figuratively, transitive) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
5. (figuratively, transitive) Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
6. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
7. (figuratively, obsolete, rare, transitive) To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
8. (transitive) 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.
9. (obsolete, transitive) To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
10. (Canada, US, intransitive) Often followed by up.
11. (Canada, US, intransitive) Often followed by up.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈsædl̩/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sadel

Inherited from Old English: sadol

Cognate with Danish: sadel

Cognate with Dutch: zadel

Cognate with German: Sattel

Cognate with Icelandic: söðull

Cognate with Low German: Sadel

Cognate with Russian: седло́

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Soadel

Cognate with Scots: sadil

Cognate with Swedish: sadel

Cognate with Western Frisian: seal

Inherited from Middle English: sadelen

Inherited from Old English: sadolian

Cognate with Middle Dutch: sādelen

Cognate with Dutch: zadelen

Cognate with Middle Low German: sādelen

Cognate with Danish: sadle

Cognate with Old High German: satalōn

Cognate with Middle High German: satelen

Cognate with German: satteln

Cognate with Old Norse: sǫðla

Cognate with Swedish: sadla

In summary

From Middle English sadel, from Old English sadol, from Proto-West Germanic *sadul, from Proto-Germanic *sadulaz (“saddle”). Further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *sod-dʰlo-, from *sed- (“to sit”) + *-dʰlom (a variant of *-trom (suffix forming nouns denoting instruments or tools)), though the Oxford English Dictionary says this “presents formal difficulties”.
Cognates
* Danish sadel
* Dutch zadel
* German Sattel
* Icelandic söðull
* Low German Sadel
* Russian седло́ (sedló)
* Saterland Frisian Soadel
* Scots sadil
* Swedish sadel
* West Frisian seal

Synonyms

burden

seat

💺

saddleback

bicycle seat

horse-saddle

packsaddle

chair

🪑

charge

harness

command

crab

🦀

cradle

dimple

direct

dorsum

encumber

enjoin

lade

load

order

pack saddle

pass

pigskin

pillion

prescribe

recess

ship

🚢

shoulder blade

skids

sleigh

slider

surcharge

tell

weigh down

weight down

barge into

clutter up

lay the blame on

sella

montura

saddle grafting

slide plate

crane carriage

slipper block

saddle-pad

pôr sela em

chute board

sliding saddle

sliding plate

return board

Translations

selle

Sattel

zadel

sella

seller

sela

sellare

siodło

silla

🪑

silla de montar

satteln

sella

ensillar

zaal

σέλα