transcription, транскрипция: [ sæd(ə)l ]
( saddles, saddling, saddled)
1.
A saddle is a leather seat that you put on the back of an animal so that you can ride the animal.
N-COUNT
see also side-saddle
2.
If you saddle a horse, you put a saddle on it so that you can ride it.
Why don’t we saddle a couple of horses and go for a ride?
VERB : V n
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Saddle up means the same as saddle .
I want to be gone from here as soon as we can saddle up...
She saddled up a horse.
PHRASAL VERB : V P , V P n (not pron)
3.
A saddle is a seat on a bicycle or motorcycle.
N-COUNT
4.
If you saddle someone with a problem or with a responsibility, you put them in a position where they have to deal with it.
The war devastated the economy and saddled the country with a huge foreign debt.
VERB : V n with n