<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>A seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.</li><li>A similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc.</li><li>A part of a harness laid across the back of an animal and girded under the belly, to which the terrets and checkhook are attached.</li><li>Something resembling a saddle in shape, position, or function.</li><li>The part of the back of an animal where a saddle is placed.</li><li>(Of mutton, venison, lamb, etc.) A cut comprising both loins.</li><li>This cut, trimmed and prepared for roasting.</li><li>(Of poultry) The posterior part of the back.</li><li>A ridge connecting two higher elevations.</li><li>The covering of a roof ridge.</li><li>A raised piece of flooring between the jambs of a doorway.</li><li>An inverted bracket bearing on the axle of a railroad car wheel as a support for the car body.</li><li>Ordnance: the support for the trunnion on some gun carriages.</li><li>Machinery: a sliding part for spanning a space or other parts to support something else, as the cross slide and toolholder of a lathe.</li><li>A strip of leather, often of a contrasting color, sewn on the vamp or instep of a shoe and extending to each side of the shank.</li><li>Saddle shoe.</li><li>Ceramics: a bar of refractory clay, triangular in section, for supporting one side of an object being fired.</li><li>(In a suspension bridge) A member at the top of a tower for supporting a cable.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(Used with object) To put a saddle on; to saddle a horse.</li><li>To load or charge, as with a burden: He has saddled himself with a houseful of impecunious relatives.</li><li>To impose as a burden or responsibility.</li><li>(Used without object) To put a saddle on a horse (often followed by up).</li><li>To mount into the saddle (often followed by up).</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>