Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A coping with a double slope.
- noun Creadion carunculatus, a passerine bird of New Zealand: so named on account of the chestnut mark on its back.
- noun A pigeon having a broad mark across the upper part of the back, suggestive of a saddle.
- Characterized by having a rather steep double slope. Thus, a saddleback roof on a tower is one which has two slopes with a ridge between them and which is bounded at either end by the gable wall. The terra is not often applied to the roofs of large masses of buildings.
- noun A hill or its summit when shaped somewhat like a saddle.
- noun A bastard kind of oyster, unfit for food; a racoon-oyster.
- noun The great black-backed gull: same as
blackback , 1. - noun The harp-seal: so called from the mark on the back.
- noun A variety of domestic geese, white, with dark feathers on the back like a saddle.
- noun The larva of the bombycid moth Empretia stimulea: so called on account of the saddle-like markings on the back.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.
- noun The harp seal.
- noun The great blackbacked gull (
Larus marinus ). - noun The larva of a bombycid moth (
Empretia stimulea ) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back. - adjective Same as
saddle-backed . - adjective (Arch.) See Saddle roof, under
Saddle .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb slang To engage in
anal sex with the intention of preserving one'svirginity (chiefly by Christian teenagers) - noun A
saddle -shaped ridge forming a shallowpass between twopeaks . - noun A
roof in the same shape, having agable at each end. - noun Any of various
creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on its back. - noun geology An
anticlinal . - noun UK the
great black-backed gull . - adjective
saddle-backed - adverb saddle-backed
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
- noun a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end
Etymologies
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Examples
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The saddleback was a diplodocoid more than a hundred feet long, named for the sage-and-rust markings that broke up its vast profile.
Archive 2009-07-05 Sean Craven 2009
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The saddleback was a diplodocoid more than a hundred feet long, named for the sage-and-rust markings that broke up its vast profile.
You Want Evopunk? I'll Give You Evopunk. Sean Craven 2009
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"saddleback" -- the greater black-backed gull of the text-books -- knowing the hand of man to be against it for its raids on game and poultry, would keep at a respectful distance.
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Am I the only one who snickers when they hear "saddleback"?
Planet Atheism 2009
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And now … without further delay … the winning definition of "saddleback" … by a gaping margin … definition number 5.
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A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described.
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The livestock comprises one saddleback sow with seven piglets, 15 chickens and some bees.
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I shed my pack, kept my weapon and started running full out up the saddleback, then something tugged at my right side, i had caught a round A through and through gunshot wound.
ronald dean douglas 2010
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A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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In the wild, emperor tamarins often live side by side with saddleback tamarins.
ZooBorns Andrew Bleiman 2010
punchcard commented on the word saddleback
a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
September 27, 2008