Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hollow-backed; sway-backed: said of a horse.
- Having the back marked or colored with the appearance of a saddle: said of various animals: as, the saddle-backed gull, seal, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.
- adjective Having a low back and high neck, as a horse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped or curved like a saddle.
- adjective Having a saddle-shaped marking;
saddleback . - adverb of riding a horse with a saddle, rather than
bare-backed
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Examples
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D. arnoldi was reported to be the most divergent, with a special saddle-backed morphology allowing it to be a specialist high-browser.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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And this same heath, made up of a light fawn-colored sand, lying on "dry, thirsty stone," was, twenty years since at least, blooming all over with rank, dark lines of turnips; trim, low hedges skirted the level highways; neat farm-cottages were flanked with great saddle-backed ricks; thousands upon thousands of long-woolled sheep cropped the luxuriant pasturage, and the Dunston column was down.
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Down the slope of the immense saddle-backed range lie fields of the brightest green, divided by banks and hedges delightful to look at after the grim stone walls of Mayo, Galway, and Clare.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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The town and the civil and military station are built on a saddle-backed ridge which is about 2 miles in length.
Birds of the Indian Hills Douglas Dewar 1916
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Staring in silence at the saddle-backed mountain, their minds traveled into the past.
El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914
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Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge.
The Crossing 1904
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The guidance of a form flattened and uneven at the top like a grinder tooth, and of another smooth, saddle-backed summit, had to be searched for within the great unclouded glare that seemed to shift and float like a dry fiery mist, filling the air, ascending from the water, shrouding the distances, scorching to the eye.
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It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.
The White Company 1890
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