To treat (a person) badly; to subject to hardships.
Difficulty or trouble; hard times.
A burden, a source of difficulty that could impose a barrier.
Chiefly followed by with: to burden or encumber (someone) with some problem or responsibility.
To enter (a trained horse) into a race.
Chiefly followed by on or upon: to place (a burden or responsibility) or thrust (a problem) on someone.
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.
To put (something) on to another thing like a saddle on an animal.
To put a saddle on an animal.
To put a saddle (noun sense 1) on (an animal).
Of a person: to get into a saddle.
The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth.
A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
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)”)
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”)
A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae).
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).
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.
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.
The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard.
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”)
A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle.
The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle.
Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation.
Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”)
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 lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles.
A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle.
The raised floorboard in a doorway.
Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”)
A small sloped or tapered structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe.
An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold.
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.