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Definition of saddle verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

saddle

verb
 
/ˈsædl/
 
/ˈsædl/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they saddle
 
/ˈsædl/
 
/ˈsædl/
he / she / it saddles
 
/ˈsædlz/
 
/ˈsædlz/
past simple saddled
 
/ˈsædld/
 
/ˈsædld/
past participle saddled
 
/ˈsædld/
 
/ˈsædld/
-ing form saddling
 
/ˈsædlɪŋ/
 
/ˈsædlɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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  1. saddle something to put a saddle on a horse
    • Their horses were saddled and waiting.
    Oxford Collocations DictionarySaddle is used with these nouns as the object:
    • horse
    • pony
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    Word OriginOld English sadol, sadul, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch zadel and German Sattel, perhaps from an Indo-European root shared by Latin sella ‘seat’ and sit.
See saddle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
halfway
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