A seat for a rider, typically made of leather and raised in the front and rear, placed on the back of a horse or other animal, and secured by a strap around the animal's body. • A similar implement used to secure goods to animals; a packsaddle. • Synonym of harness saddle (“the part of a harness which supports the weight of poles or shafts attaching a vehicle to a horse or other animal”). • A cushion used as a seat in a cart or other vehicle. • The immovable seat of a bicycle, motorcycle, or similar vehicle. • Chiefly preceded by the: horse-riding as an activity or occupation. • Synonym of saddle brown (“a medium brown colour, like that of saddle leather”). • Something resembling a saddle (sense 1) in appearance or shape. • A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills. • A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone. • The part of a denture which holds the artificial teeth. • An equipment part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support. • An anticline (“fold with strata sloping downwards on each side”); specifically, a depression located along the axial trend of such a fold. • Synonym of saddle reef (“a saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle)”). • Synonym of saddle point (“a point in the range of a smooth function, every neighbourhood of which contains points on each side of its tangent plane”). • The part of a guitar which supports the strings and, in an acoustic guitar, transfers their vibrations through the bridge to the soundboard. • A small object (traditionally made of ebony) at the bottom of a string instrument such as a cello, viola, or violin below the tailpiece on which the tailgut (“cord securing the tailpiece to the instrument”) rests. • A block of wood with concave depressions at the top and bottom, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another. • The threshold, the raised floorboard in a doorway. • The clitellum of an earthworm (family Lumbricidae). • The lower part of the back of a domestic fowl, especially a male bird, bearing the saddle feathers or saddle hackles. • In full saddle marking or saddle patch: a saddle-like marking on an animal, such as one on the back of an adult harp seal or saddleback seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), or any of numerous such markings on a boa constrictor (Boa constrictor). • A piece of leather stitched across the instep of a shoe, usually having a different colour from the rest of the shoe. • Synonym of saddle oxford or saddle shoe (“a shoe, resembling an oxford, which has a saddle (sense 11.1)”). • A timeslot between two popular programmes, in which another programme can be scheduled to encourage people to watch it.