saddle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈsædl̩/    美 /ˈsæd(ə)l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
    — His [Cotton's] Horſe vvas led before, vvith a mourning Veluet Saddle on his backe, his Coffin had a Crimſon Sattin Quilt lined with purple Silke, ouer him vvas laid his Bible, Svvord and Hat: […]
  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.; A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
  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.; Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”).
  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.; A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
  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.; The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
  6. 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.; Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation. broadly
    — [A] good horſeman, […] is ſkilfull to knovv, and hable to tell others, hovv, by certain ſure ſignes, a man may choiſe a colte, that is like to prove an other day excellent for the ſaddle.
  7. 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.; Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”). broadly
  8. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
    — The Hill Zeliſco bore S.E. vvhich is a very high Hill in the Country, vvith a Saddle or bending on the top.
  9. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
    — To roast a leg, haunch, or saddle of mutton. […] A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout; or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup and seasonings.
  10. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
  11. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
    — […] with this arrangement the cylinders are cast separately from the saddle, and bolted to the frames on each side with a fabricated stiffener between the frames. This stiffener is carried up to form the saddle for the smokebox, and within it is fitted the exhaust pipes from the cylinders to the blast pipe.
  12. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
  13. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.; Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”). Australia
  14. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”).
  15. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
  16. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests.
  17. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  18. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway.
    — Door Shoes - (doors with saddle threshold) are [strips that] provide a seal between the door and the threshold.
  19. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
  20. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
  21. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor).
  22. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe. US
  23. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.; Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”). US
    — 'Now then … What'll it be, boys?' Mr Berman asked. / My mother answered. 'Brown-and-white saddles for Fudge and loafers for Peter.'
  24. A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.
    — In "hammocking," a new program is placed in the "saddle" between two established hits, or "tent poles."
动词 v.
  1. To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal). transitive
    — Then roſe Balaam vp in the mornynge, & ſadled his Aſſe, & wente wͪ the prynces of yͤ Moabites.
  2. To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal. transitive
    — Reſolv'd for Sea, the Slaves thy Baggage pack; / Each ſaddled, vvith his Burden on his back: […]
  3. To enter (a trained horse) into a race. figuratively,transitive
  4. Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility. figuratively,transitive
    — He has been saddled with the task of collecting evidence of the theft.
  5. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone. figuratively,transitive
    — I did not dislose the name of the man I proposed, because I found her only too eager to marry anyone upon whom she could saddle her debts, and so make him either pay them or change places with her.
  6. To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in. archaic,figuratively,transitive
    — But he never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.
  7. To get (someone) to do a burdensome task. figuratively,obsolete,rare,transitive
    — Picked up Sotheby, who endeavoured to saddle me for a review of his polyglot Virgil. I fear I shall scarce convince him that I know nothing of the Latin lingo.
  8. 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. transitive
  9. To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal. obsolete,transitive
  10. Often followed by up.; To put a saddle on an animal. Canada,US,intransitive
    — Next day, while we were saddling, Ali and Abd el Kader appeared.
  11. Often followed by up.; Of a person: to get into a saddle. Canada,US,intransitive
    — Till the dead midnight we saddled not,— / I have journeyed far and fast— / And hither I come to carry thee back / Ere the darkness shall be past.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

词源 1
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
词源 2
From Middle English sadelen (“to put a saddle on (an animal), to saddle”) [and other forms], from Old English sadolian, sadelian, sadilian (“to saddle”), from Proto-Germanic *sadulōną (“to saddle”), from *sadulaz (“a saddle”, noun) (see further at etymology 1) + *-ōną (suffix forming denominative verbs from nouns).
Cognates
* Middle Dutch sādelen (modern Dutch zadelen)
* Middle Low German sādelen
* Old Danish sathlæ (modern Danish sadle)
* Old High German satalōn, satulōn (Middle High German satelen, sateln, German satteln)
* Old Norse sǫðla
* Old Swedish saþla (modern Swedish sadla)
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