(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.
Wrangler
Definition:
(n.) An angry disputant; one who disputes with heat or peevishness.
(n.) One of those who stand in the first rank of honors in the University of Cambridge, England. They are called, according to their rank, senior wrangler, second wrangler, third wrangler, etc. Cf. Optime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Militiamen took position on a highway overpass, offering cover as horse-mounted wranglers led protesters to face off against heavily equipped BLM rangers and snipers.
(2) Wankers," I said, fingering my cup, wondering if that was what the clay wrangler wanted me to say.
(3) But not until I have availed myself of the spider-wrangler’s traditional right of playfully saying “oops”, touching your neck with a fingertip and pretending to drop it down your shirt.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump: I hope the Republican convention doesn’t turn violent Manafort, a veteran delegate wrangler with experience going back to the 1976 Republican National Convention, used the campaign’s problems managing the complex delegate selection process as his path into Trump’s inner circle.
(5) Like something out of a spaghetti western, the dustup had already seen several climaxes before its finale: cows lassoed by government wranglers, women knocked to the ground and men shot with stun guns.
(6) In single file behind one of the wranglers, we headed into the desert.
(7) At the end of a drive to Yucca, Arizona, 200 miles south-east of Vegas, we swung through the ranch gate and climbed out to a laconic “Howdy” from a cowpoke who introduced himself as Tex, the head wrangler.
(8) Spokespeople for Gap, Walmart, the US retailer Target and VF Corporation, the owner of the Lee and Wrangler denim brands, which were involved in the deal, said it was transparent and designed to help workers.
(9) Yes, of course small-town ranchers are rarely seen without their hand-woven straw cowboy hats and way-too-tight Wrangler jeans, but we city folk wear business suits and carry briefcases and drive motorized vehicles – so what if those vehicles are Ford F-150s, Chevy Silverados or Dodge Rams.
(10) My first teenage, um, stirrings took place on the waltzers, and I’m delighted to see that the long-haired, tattooed ride-wrangler aesthetic is still in place, even if it’s softened by the seaside rock palette.
(11) I predict there’s going to come a time when Father’s Day is hate speech because you’re dissing a lesbian couple.” Piles of unsold real, comfortable Wrangler Jeans clogging up landfills.
(12) But Osama el-Hadi, a fighter in a grey Wrangler hoodie, is gloomier.
(13) I could sling a leg over it and grab the pommel but I appreciated the help of a wrangler to help me get vertical.
(14) I was far too much of an Englishman to wear mine at mealtimes, as the wranglers did, but it became an essential part of my holiday wardrobe.
(15) In 2005, one celebrity wrangler said she'd brought along Sharon Stone because Davos was where one mixed "issue-driven stars with serious CEOs".