Saddle

German Meaning

Sattel

Rücken

Rückenstück

satteln

English Meaning

  1. A leather seat for a rider, secured on an animal's back by a girth. Also called regionally rig.
  2. Similar tack used for attaching a pack to an animal.
  3. The padded part of a driving harness fitting over a horse's back.
  4. The seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
  5. Something shaped like a saddle.
  6. A cut of meat consisting of part of the backbone and both loins.
  7. The lower part of a male fowl's back.
  8. A saddle-shaped depression in the ridge of a hill.
  9. A ridge between two peaks.
  10. To put a saddle onto.
  11. To load or burden; encumber: They were saddled with heavy expenses.
  12. To saddle a horse.
  13. To get into a saddle.
  14. in the saddle In control; dominant.