saddle
Definitions
Agriculture
- noun a leather seat for a rider placed on the back of a horse
- noun a coloured patch on the back of an animal such as a pig which looks a little as if the animal is carrying a saddle
- noun the part of a shaft-horse’s harness that bears the shafts
Construction
- A fitted device used with hangers to support a pipe.
- A series of bends in a pipe over an obstruction.
- A short horizontal member set on top of a post as a seat for a girder.
- Any hollow-backed structure with a shape suggesting a saddle, as a ridge connected to two higher elevations or a saddle roof.
Food
- A large joint of meat from smaller animals, consisting of two joined loins and sometimes including ribs
Publishing
- noun a device on which an unbound booklet is placed to be stitched
Travel
- noun a cut of meat such as lamb, hare or venison, made up of both loins and part of the backbone
Origin & History of “saddle”
Saddle comes from a prehistoric Germanic *sathulaz, which also produced German sattel, Dutch zadel, and Swedish sadel. Etymologically it no doubt signifies something to ‘sit’ on, hailing ultimately from the Indo-European base *sed- ‘sit’, from which English gets sit.
