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6-letter words (3 found)

ADDLES,DALEDS,SADDLE,

5-letter words (11 found)

ADDLE,DALED,DALES,DEADS,DEALS,DEDAL,LADED,LADES,LASED,LEADS,SLADE,

4-letter words (21 found)

ADDS,ALES,DADS,DAES,DALE,DALS,DEAD,DEAL,DELS,ELDS,LADE,LADS,LASE,LEAD,LEAS,SADE,SALE,SEAL,SELD,SLAE,SLED,

3-letter words (24 found)

ADD,ADS,ALE,ALS,DAD,DAE,DAL,DAS,DEL,EAS,EDS,ELD,ELS,LAD,LAS,LEA,LED,LES,SAD,SAE,SAL,SEA,SED,SEL,

2-letter words (11 found)

AD,AE,AL,AS,DA,DE,EA,ED,EL,ES,LA,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 71 words from saddle according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of saddle

saddle

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsædl̩/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsæd(ə)l/
  • Rhymes: -ædəl
  • Hyphenation: sad‧dle

Etymology 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”.

Noun

saddle (plural saddles)

  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.
    1. A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
    2. 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”)
    3. A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
    4. The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
    5. (by extension)
      1. Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
      2. Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
  3. Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape.
    1. A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
    2. A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
    3. (construction)
      1. A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
      2. The raised floorboard in a doorway.
    4. (dentistry) The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
    5. (engineering) 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.
    6. (geology) An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
      1. (chiefly Australia, mining) 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)”)
    7. (geometry) 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”)
    8. (lutherie)
      1. The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
      2. 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.
    9. (nautical) 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.
    10. (zoology)
      1. The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
      2. The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
      3. 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).
    11. (originally and chiefly Canada, US)
      1. A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
      2. Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Japanese: サドル (sadoru)
Translations

Etymology 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).

Verb

saddle (third-person singular simple present saddles, present participle saddling, simple past and past participle saddled)

  1. (transitive)
    1. To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
    2. To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
    3. (figuratively)
      1. To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
      2. (often passive voice) Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
      3. Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
      4. (archaic) To control or restrain (someone or something), as if using a saddle; to bridle, to harness, to rein in.
      5. (obsolete, rare) To get (someone) to do a burdensome task.
    4. (woodworking) 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.
    5. (obsolete)
      1. To put something on to (another thing) like a saddle on an animal.
  2. (intransitive, chiefly Canada, US) Often followed by up.
    1. To put a saddle on an animal.
    2. Of a person: to get into a saddle.
Usage notes

Not to be confused with sidle.

Conjugation
Derived terms
  • saddled (adjective)
  • saddler
  • saddle up
  • saddling (noun)
Translations

References

  • “saddle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Further reading

  • saddle on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • saddle (landform) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • saddle (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • addles, daleds

Source: wiktionary.org