Definitions

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  • adjective Without a saddle.

Etymologies

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saddle +‎ -less

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Examples

  • Six of the men also led extra mounts, unburdened and saddleless.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • In mid-May, Washington invited a number of Oneida Indian chiefs—hereditary foes of the Mohawk—from western Pennsylvania to his Middlebrook headquarters to enlist their support, and they rode along the line with him on their saddleless horses, wearing headdresses of eagle plumes, strings of bear claws, and large pendants dangling from their noses and ears.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • In mid-May, Washington invited a number of Oneida Indian chiefs—hereditary foes of the Mohawk—from western Pennsylvania to his Middlebrook headquarters to enlist their support, and they rode along the line with him on their saddleless horses, wearing headdresses of eagle plumes, strings of bear claws, and large pendants dangling from their noses and ears.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • Another band, then hundreds of saddleless horses herded by mounted men.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • The rescue party of cowboys had returned to Diamond X ranch, after meeting Nort and Dick who were riding their saddleless horses on their way of escape from the mysterious camp.

    The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X Willard F. Baker

  • The night that Bess came home saddleless and riderless, with the white foam on her, and when he searched till near morning, to at last find Job stretched in a stupor by the wayside down the Chichilla road, he thought the boy's after story was true -- that story of a frightened runaway -- and little knew it was Pete Wilkins 'whisky that had thrown him.

    The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Frederick Vining Fisher

  • She gave one of her sudden springs and landed astride his back, saddleless and halterless.

    Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home

  • They put the prisoner astride the saddleless horse and made their way slowly to the ranch house.

    Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch Annie Roe Carr

  • It was Martin who guided them to the creek, Martin who decided just where to locate their camp, Martin who, early the next morning, unloaded the wagon and made a temporary tent from its cover, and Martin who set forth on a saddleless horse in search of Peter Mall.

    Dust 1921

  • It was Martin who guided them to the creek, Martin who decided just where to locate their camp, Martin who, early the next morning, unloaded the wagon and made a temporary tent from its cover, and Martin who set forth on a saddleless horse in search of Peter Mall.

    Dust Marcet Haldeman-Julius 1914

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