(n.) A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably a horse's back, furnished with stirrups for the rider's feet to rest in, and fastened in place with a girth; also, a seat for the rider on a bicycle or tricycle.
(n.) A padded part of a harness which is worn on a horse's back, being fastened in place with a girth. It serves various purposes, as to keep the breeching in place, carry guides for the reins, etc.
(n.) A piece of meat containing a part of the backbone of an animal with the ribs on each side; as, a saddle of mutton, of venison, etc.
(n.) A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar.
(n.) A part, as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
(n.) The threshold of a door, when a separate piece from the floor or landing; -- so called because it spans and covers the joint between two floors.
(v. t.) To put a saddle upon; to equip (a beast) for riding.
(v. t.) Hence: To fix as a charge or burden upon; to load; to encumber; as, to saddle a town with the expense of bridges and highways.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on our experience with the mark I prosthesis we have designed and developed a mark II model which has freedom of axial rotation of the saddle.
(2) Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver is amusing himself by trying to take a puff of a cigar in his saddle.
(3) To date, 3-dimensional studies have demonstrated that the mitral valve is saddle-shaped in systole, so that apparent superior leaflet displacement in the mediolateral 4-chamber view, often seen in otherwise normal individuals, lies entirely within the bounds defined by the mitral annulus and occurs without leaflet distortion or actual displacement above the entire mitral valve.
(4) Devitalized homologous costal cartilage is widely employed as an implant in the management of the saddle nose.
(5) Our practice of initiating treatment of saddle embolism with immediate systemic heparin infusion resembles that of Blaisdell et al.
(6) Charlize Theron is set to star opposite Seth MacFarlane in the Ted creator's new comedy western A Million Ways to Die in the West, tipped as a homage to Mel Brooks's classic movie Blazing Saddles .
(7) Eleven patients with stones overlying the sacro-iliac joint were treated in the prone position, while 56 patients with stones distal to the sacro-iliac joint, were treated in the saddle (astride) position.
(8) Proteins of normal serum as well as induced serum emerged in two peaks separated by a deep saddle.
(9) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(10) Serious septal injuries may include comminuted caudal border fractures, septal crushes, and saddling with loss of septal height.
(11) For the saddle coil, signal-to-noise per pixel was superior to the head coil for depths below 8.5 cm for magnifications up to 30%.
(12) But they also saddled governments with large deficits, which soon came to be viewed as an obstacle to recovery – the opposite of what Keynes taught.
(13) Correction of the saddle nasal deformity requires generous elevation and mobilization of the overlying soft tissue, the restoration of skeletal support, and the provision of nasal mucosa lining ("the forgotten link").
(14) The patient showed characteristic features: upper and lower eyelids connected to each other by a string-like epithelium, low hairline, epicanthal folds, saddle nose with a broad, flat root, micrognathia, short neck, high-arched palate, prominent xiphisternum, wide-spaced nipples, bilateral pes equinovarus, fifth toes that overlapped the fourth toes bilaterally, a deep fissure between the first and second toes bilaterally, and abnormal flexions of fingers and toes.
(15) Murdoch’s humblest day didn’t last long, with Rebekah Brooks back in the saddle an James Murdoch back in charge of Sky and angling to take over the whole company.
(16) High-resolution magnetic resonance (MR) images of the skin were acquired with a whole-body MR system at 1.5 T by adding a specific imaging module: A saddle-shaped surface gradient coil was connected in place of one of the gradient coils of the system, and a surface radio-frequency coil with a 1.5-cm radius was placed at the center of the gradient coil.
(17) Other clinical manifestations were saddle nose (3 cases), painful swelling of ear (2 cases), arthralgia (1 case) ophthalmodynia (1 case).
(18) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(19) The equipment consisted of a sound transducer applied to the skin adjacent to the trachea and a radio transmitter attached to the saddle.
(20) Successively: correction of the dorsum (resection of the bony hump) with incorrect nasofrontal angle, residual hump, "saddle nose"; lateral osteotomy and bony step; transversal and paramedian osteotomy with possibility of "open roof" so as residual deviation.
Saddler
Definition:
(n.) One who makes saddles.
(n.) A harp seal.
Example Sentences:
(1) Things began to look bleak for the Saddlers when Chelsea extended their lead four minutes from the interval.
(2) The Saddlers led twice but were eventually pegged back by former Newcastle winger Darren Ambrose with ten minutes remaining, before O’Connor rescued a point.
(3) In the early 1990s, the then defence secretary and Edinburgh Pentlands MP Malcolm Rifkind sacrificed thousands of jobs at the nearby Rosyth dockyard by giving the multi-billion pound Trident nuclear submarine refitting contract to Devonport dockyard in Plymouth, Saddler said.
(4) The sale of the Dunfermline's profitable savings business to the Nationwide was another example of a major local employer being let down by powerful Scottish ministers, in favour of bigger businesses "in the south", said Saddler.
(5) Outside the branch, Alexander Saddler, a retired principle teacher of music and a Dunfermline customer for 50 years, believed the mutual had been betrayed by the government.
(6) Smith took the reins from Chris Hutchings following his dismissal at the start of January and guided the Saddlers to draws at Tranmere Rovers and Bristol Rovers prior to last Saturday's 4-2 defeat at home to high-flying Huddersfield Town.
(7) A 4-week-old American Saddler foal was presented for autopsy following an illness characterised by clinical features indicative of hepatic failure.
(8) The Saddlers, though, began the second half as they had begun the first and within three minutes City had doubled their lead.
(9) It was definitely known who shot Gavin," said Andrew Saddler, a close friend of Clarke's.
(10) That is a tall order with the club currently propping up the table, seven points and a healthy goal difference away from safety, but the chief executive, Stefan Gamble, believes the former Saddlers captain is the right man for the job and has also promised funds to spend in the January window.
(11) But he wanted it only after subjecting the form to its limits, stuffing it with random accreted details - like the man fighting at the barricades, who "had padded his chest with a breastplate of nine sheets of grey packing paper and was armed with a saddler's awl".
(12) Signed from The Saddlers in 2010, Deeney amassed 81 goals in 220 Championship appearances and will no doubt be pivotal if Watford are to survive in the Premier League under the stewardship of the new manager Quique Sánchez Flores.
(13) A Hansen type I cervical intervertebral disc prolapse was diagnosed in a 16-year-old American Saddler showing clinical signs of paresis and ataxia.