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▪ I. ˈsaddle-bag, n.
1. A bag carried at the saddle; esp. one of a pair laid across the back of a horse, behind the saddle, or one attached behind the saddle of a bicycle.
1773H. Finlay Jrnl. (1867) 43 The rider had saddle bags quite full besides. 1780W. Fleming in N. D. Mereness Trav. Amer. Colonies (1916) 651 Capt. Pawling..had gone back for my saddlebags. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 542 Manufactures of leather..holsters, saddle-bags [etc.]. 1841Lane Arab. Nts. I. 43 He..put his hand into his saddle-bag, and eat a morsel of bread and a date which were among his provisions. 1856Stanley Sinai & Pal. i. (1858) 67 The great saddle bags act like sails to the camels. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i. i, A visit..which the Squire made on his horse with a pair of saddle-bags containing his wardrobe. 1901Duncan & Scott Allen & Woodson Counties, Kansas 619 The doctor of 1858,..with saddle-bags like paniers to a pack mule, would make a strange comparison with the well-dressed and well-barbered M.D. of the present era. 1920Cycling 12 Aug. p. xvii/3 (Advt.), Few pigskin saddle bags, 9 by 6 by 4, 17s 6d, post 9d. 1940J. Betjeman Old Lights for New Chancels 49 Kant on the handle-bars, Marx in the saddlebag. 1965D. Murphy Full Tilt p. xi, Apart from the normal accessories—saddle-bag, bell, lamp and pump—she carried only pannier-bag holders on either side of the back wheel. 1973R. T. Way Bicycle 63/2 For normal day-to-day riding, a small saddlebag is all that is needed—it only has to take a cape, cap, tools, snack and camera.
2. attrib. Used to designate a fine quality of carpeting, made in sizes and designs imitating the saddle-bags carried in the East by camels; chiefly employed as a covering for cheap classes of dining-room furniture. Also ellipt., a saddle-bag chair.
1882Daily News 30 May 5/7 Settees and easy-chairs upholstered in what is known as the Persian saddle-bag pattern. 1900F. Warden Plain Miss Cray 80 There was..a saddle-bag couch and two big easy-chairs. 1903McNeill Egregious English 125 A saddle-bag suite. 1919C. Dane Legend 82 ‘There's your chair. Isn't that always your chair?’..But he did not take the saddle-bag near Anita's own seat.
▪ II. ˈsaddle-bag, v. U.S.
Also (rare) saddle-bags.
[f. the n.]
intr. To double round an obstruction.
1884‘Mark Twain’ Huck. Finn xiii. 114 They lost their steering-oar..and saddle-baggsed on the wreck. 1898Derrick's Handbk. Petroleum 32 A boat..laden with 1,500 bbls. of oil, ‘saddle-bagged’ on pier of Oil Creek bridge. Boat and contents a total loss. 1901W. F. Fox in 6th Ann. Rep. N.Y. State Forest, Fish & Game Comm. 254 Sometimes the long, floating mass [sc. a lumber raft] would swing in the wind and current so that it would ‘saddle-bag’ on the head of the bar below the dam. 1905Terms Forestry & Logging (U.S. Dept. Agric. Bureau Forestry) 45 Saddlebag, as applied to a boom, to catch on an obstruction and double round it. |