Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To remove a saddle from.
- intransitive verb To throw (a rider) from the saddle. Used of a horse.
- intransitive verb To remove a saddle from a horse.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To strip of a saddle; take the saddle from: as, to
unsaddle a horse. - To cause to dismount or fall from a saddle; unhorse.
- To take the saddle from a horse: as, we unsaddled for an hour's rest.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse.
- transitive verb To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To remove a
saddle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the saddle from
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Examples
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(Meek), not "unsaddle," because the saddle is not removed from camels when they are warm from driving.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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Like Pascal, La Rochefoucauld and Flaubert, she liked nothing better than to unsaddle human pieties.
A Supremely Disabused Writer André Aciman 2011
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O'Brien Jr was as cool and collected as he was led back to unsaddle as he was in the race itself, even stopping at one point to conduct an interview with a trackside television panel while still aboard St Nicholas Abbey.
Aidan and Joseph O'Brien win at Breeders' Cup with St Nicholas Abbey 2011
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Three Random Words: desseller = to unsaddle empoté, e = awkward, maladroit, clumsy fâcher = to make angry, to vex in Characters | Permalink
Characters 2009
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Three Random Words: desseller = to unsaddle empoté, e = awkward, maladroit, clumsy fâcher = to make angry, to vex in Characters | Permalink
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Three Random Words: desseller = to unsaddle empoté, e = awkward, maladroit, clumsy fâcher = to make angry, to vex in Characters | Permalink
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Three Random Words: desseller = to unsaddle empoté, e = awkward, maladroit, clumsy fâcher = to make angry, to vex
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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The groom Peter was easy and talkative about helping Cadfael to unsaddle and unload, groom and water the horse and settle him in a stall, and pointed him amiably to the hall when that was done.
A River So Long 2010
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When he had his troopers unsaddle their mounts to graze, he had decided to wait until the enemy passed before he resumed the movement around the Federal army.
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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When they reached Leesburg, according to an artillerist with Pelham, the troopers “actually fell off their horses, not having enough strength to unsaddle them, and slept until next morning.”
Cavalryman of the Lost Cause Jeffry D. Wert 2008
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