1 a leather seat for a rider on a horse:
She swung herself into the saddle.
2 a seat on a bicycle or motorcycle
3 a piece of meat from the back of an animal:
a saddle of lamb / venison
IDIOMS
in the saddle
1 in a position of authority and control:
He wanted a united party, with himself firmly in the saddle.
2 riding a horse:
Three weeks after the accident he was back in the saddle.
verb [VN] to put a saddle on a horse:
Their horses were saddled and waiting.
PHRASALVERBS
saddle up
Rate this entry
About this entry
This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for saddle is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is saddle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, saddle is tagged as noun.
Does saddle appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — saddle appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
What is Lughet?
Lughet is a free trilingual dictionary covering nearly five million entries across Uyghur, Chinese, and English, drawn from more than ten source dictionaries and corpora.
