saddle
1. a seat for the rider of a horse or camel (Freq. 14)
• Hypernyms:
seat
• Hyponyms:
English saddle, English cavalry saddle, packsaddle, sidesaddle, stock saddle, Western saddle
• Part Meronyms:
cantle, pommel, saddlebow, stirrup, stirrup iron
2. a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
• Syn:
saddleback
• Hypernyms:
pass, mountain pass, notch
3. cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
• Hypernyms:
cut, cut of meat
4. a piece of leather across the instep of a shoe
• Hypernyms:
piece of leather
• Part Holonyms:
shoe
5. a seat for the rider of a bicycle
• Syn:
bicycle seat
• Hypernyms:
seat
• Part Holonyms:
bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle
6. posterior part of the back of a domestic fowl
• Hypernyms:
body part
• Part Holonyms:
back, dorsum, domestic fowl, fowl, poultry
1. put a saddle on (Freq. 1)
- saddle the horses
• Ant:
unsaddle
• Derivationally related forms:
saddlery
• Hypernyms:
attach
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
2. load or burden;
encumber (Freq. 1)
- he saddled me with that heavy responsibility
• Hypernyms:
burden, burthen, weight, weight down
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Something ----s somebody
3. impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to (Freq. 1)
- He charged her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend
• Syn:
charge, burden
• Derivationally related forms:
burden (for: burden), charge (for: charge)
• Hypernyms:
command, require
• Hyponyms:
overburden, bear down, overwhelm, deluge, flood out, adjure
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
- Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE (for: charge)
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