saddle-backedadj.

Brit.

/ˈsadlˌbakt/, U.S.

/ˈsæd(ə)lˌbækt/

Forms: see saddle n.¹ and backed adj.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: saddle n.¹, backed adj.

Etymology: < saddle n.¹ + backed adj. Compare saddleback n., saddleback adj.

1. Having a curved or sloping back, upper surface, or edge; spec. †(of an arrow) having the fletchings cut in a concave curve (opposed to swine-backed).

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave

hollc1000

hollowa1250

denteda1398

concaved?1541

saddle-backed1545

vaulty1545

concave?a1560

sinuated1578

inboweda1586

inbowing1603

inwinding1610

hollowed1613

crusy1625

simous1634

invex1688

scooped1726

depressed1753

hollowed-out1755

scooping1821

shell1823

welled1848

concaving1871

incaved-

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [adjective] > types of chair

caned1696

rush-bottomed1696

rush-bottom1729

roundabout chair1741

leather-bottomed1783

stick-back1783

poker-backed1830

flag-bottomed1840

claw-footed1858

seatless1871

cane-bottomed1877

cane-seated1881

sag-seated1890

sit-up1891

slat-back1891

sag-bottomed1893

spindle-back1896

shield-back1897

Carver1902

basket-bodied1903

panel-back1904

Cromwellian1905

hooped-back1906

saddle-backed1910

hard-arsed1933

sling-back1948

X-frame1955

hard-arse1964

1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 15 Fourthly in couling or sheryng [the feather of a shaft],..whether somewhat swyne backed (I muste vse shoters wordes) or sadle backed, whether rounde, or square shorne?

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 238 They [sc. dolphins] are saddle-backed.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xlii. 492 The Walnut tree wood soone bendeth, and is saddle-backt as it lieth.

1853 Times 31 May 5/2 The cover [of the sarcophagus] is saddle-backed.

1865 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 227 Neat farm-cottages were flanked with great saddle-backed ricks.

1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxxiv. 481 It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.

1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger ii. xxi. 313 He would begin to establish himself in a saddle-backed, ear-flapped easy-chair.

1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk xi. 161 He wanted to know the origins of saddle-backed bridges, such as the one at Snape.

2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Aug. 5 Three tall pillar structures towering above many more of the typical saddle-backed sarcophagi.

2. Of a horse or other animal: having a depression or hollow in the back, esp. as a symptom of age or disease. Cf. saddleback n. 2.Earliest in extended use, applied insultingly to people.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular shape of back

saddle-backed?1577

swayed1577

saddleback1677

sway-backed1680

bream-backed1723

swayback1887

?1577 Misogonus iv. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 243 Had not bene for the saddlebackt grombole Ide gott well by this shifte.

1647 H. Neville Parl. of Ladies (Wing N512A) sig. A3 I confesse he [sc. her husband] is saddle-nos'd and saddlebackt too.

1665 J. Wilson Projectors ii. i. 15 Smithfield at the end of a long Vacation cann't shew such another Wall-ey'd, Crest-falne, Saddle-back't, Flat-rib d, Gut-founder'd, Shoulder-pitcht, Spur-gall'd, Hip-shotten, Greese-moulten jade.

1675 London Gaz. No. 967/4 Strayed or stolen.., a bright Bay Gelding,..a little Saddle-back'd.

1717 J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman (ed. 3) i. ii. 11 The Back should be straight and not hollow or Saddle-back'd.

1717 A. Tooke tr. F. A. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 7) ii. xiii. 231 He sits upon a Saddle-back'd Ass.

1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 166 Some horses have a very considerable hollow behind the withers. They are said to be saddle-backed.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 29 July 2/3 A thorough~bred Arab..should be..very slightly saddle-backed. To be ‘saddle-backed’ is to have a depression where the saddle would naturally come.

1981 Americas 37 421 The man's horse was a roan mare, thin, saddle-backed, and run down.

3. Of a hill, rock outcrop, etc.: having evenly sloping sides either side of a ridge, esp. where the ridge rises towards each end so as to produce a concavely curved outline reminiscent of a saddle; having such an outline. Cf. saddleback n. 3a.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > saddle-backed

saddle-backed1599

1599 J. Welsh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 126 It is a hill sadlebacked, and..we saw a row of hils sadlebacked also.

1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1125 Below that the Hills are saddle-backed.

1864 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. of London 8 2779 A narrow, saddle-backed ridge.

1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 235 A saddle-backed hill.

1905 Geogr. Jrnl. 26 190 A curious saddle-backed outcrop of granite, generally from about 100 to 200 feet in length and 50 feet in width at the base, terminating at the top in a sharp ridge.

1910 Times 17 Mar. 4/5 The infantry were drawn back from the skyline and placed just behind the crest if it was a saddle-backed hill.

1997 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 23 Feb. a1 The Roanoke Valley has higher, more majestic peaks..and more topographically intriguing ones, such as saddlebacked Tinker Mountain.

4. Architecture.

a. Of coping: shaped so as to slope downwards to the edges from a central apex.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > coping > saddle-backed

saddle-backed1834

saddleback1876

1834 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 124/2 Their parapet..should be plain, and their buttresses terminated with a plain saddle-backed coping.

1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 956 at Coping Coping thicker in the middle than at the edges is called saddle-backed coping.

1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 272 Saddle-back coping, a coping with a sharp apex and flat flanks which slope down from it each side.

1999 R. W. Sovinski Brick in Landscape 65 A preferable solution for coping a wall made entirely of brick is to use a specialized coping brick... Such units include half-round, ogee, saddleback (ridge), bullnose..and double-canted bricks.

b. Of a tower, roof, etc.: having or forming a saddleback (saddleback n. 4).

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > roofed > in specific manner > specific

coupledc1384

thatched1467

stone-heled1578

slate-hung1648

slate-roofed1648

raftered1670

rafted1739

stob-thatched1792

reeded1819

hip-roofed1821

wagon-vaulted1835

span-roofed1842

saddle-backed1853

thatchy1864

tortoise-roofed1886

mansarded1890

monopitch1961

skillion-roofed1967

1853 Archæologia Cambrensis 4 174 Its [sc. the tower's] roof is saddle-backed, or gabled.

1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 23 A small straight saddle~backed tower.

1915 Times 1 Apr. 5 At the church, with its saddle-backed tower, we bear to the right.

1922 T. G. Jackson in A. Tilley Medieval France ix. 370 Every village round about Caen has a steeple; some of them saddle-backed, others with fine belfry stages and stone spires.

2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 56/4 A sheep-farming community with a hundred and fifty inhabitants and a little church with a saddle-backed tower.

5. Of a bird or mammal: having a saddle-like marking on the back.† saddle-backed crow n. Obsolete = saddleback crow at saddleback n. 7. saddle-backed shrew n. = saddleback shrew at saddleback n. 12.

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the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having markings of particular shape

ermined1486

radiated1793

bridled?a1808

saddle-backed1838

moon-eyed1896

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [adjective] > of or resembling shrew

soricine1781

saddle-backed1927

1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Saddle-backed crow, the Royston, or sea-crow, so called from its mixture of black and grey feathers. Sussex.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 12 The Hooded, or Saddle-backed Crows.

1927 H. H. T. Jackson Taxon. Rev. Amer. Long-tailed Shrews 69 A specimen of the American saddle-backed shrew..was mentioned as early as 1772.

1996 Mammalian Species No. 524. 4/1 Although arctic shrew is the accepted common name for S. arcticus.., two additional common names that describe the appearance of this species are saddle-backed and black-backed shrew.

†6. Placed astride like a saddle. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side > situated astride

saddle-backed1878

1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxx. 487 Colorado is divided nearly down the center by the main chain of the Rocky Mountains—or, in miner's phrase, ‘saddle-backed across the range’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	saddle-backed
释义	saddle-backedadj. Brit. /ˈsadlˌbakt/, U.S. /ˈsæd(ə)lˌbækt/ Forms: see saddle n.¹ and backed adj. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: saddle n.¹, backed adj. Etymology: < saddle n.¹ + backed adj. Compare saddleback n., saddleback adj. 1. Having a curved or sloping back, upper surface, or edge; spec. †(of an arrow) having the fletchings cut in a concave curve (opposed to swine-backed). ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave hollc1000 hollowa1250 denteda1398 concaved?1541 saddle-backed1545 vaulty1545 concave?a1560 sinuated1578 inboweda1586 inbowing1603 inwinding1610 hollowed1613 crusy1625 simous1634 invex1688 scooped1726 depressed1753 hollowed-out1755 scooping1821 shell1823 welled1848 concaving1871 incaved- society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [adjective] > types of chair caned1696 rush-bottomed1696 rush-bottom1729 roundabout chair1741 leather-bottomed1783 stick-back1783 poker-backed1830 flag-bottomed1840 claw-footed1858 seatless1871 cane-bottomed1877 cane-seated1881 sag-seated1890 sit-up1891 slat-back1891 sag-bottomed1893 spindle-back1896 shield-back1897 Carver1902 basket-bodied1903 panel-back1904 Cromwellian1905 hooped-back1906 saddle-backed1910 hard-arsed1933 sling-back1948 X-frame1955 hard-arse1964 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus ii. f. 15 Fourthly in couling or sheryng [the feather of a shaft],..whether somewhat swyne backed (I muste vse shoters wordes) or sadle backed, whether rounde, or square shorne? 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 238 They [sc. dolphins] are saddle-backed. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xlii. 492 The Walnut tree wood soone bendeth, and is saddle-backt as it lieth. 1853 Times 31 May 5/2 The cover [of the sarcophagus] is saddle-backed. 1865 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 227 Neat farm-cottages were flanked with great saddle-backed ricks. 1890 A. Conan Doyle White Company xxxiv. 481 It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier. 1910 A. Bennett Clayhanger ii. xxi. 313 He would begin to establish himself in a saddle-backed, ear-flapped easy-chair. 1962 A. Jobson Window in Suffolk xi. 161 He wanted to know the origins of saddle-backed bridges, such as the one at Snape. 2002 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 10 Aug. 5 Three tall pillar structures towering above many more of the typical saddle-backed sarcophagi. 2. Of a horse or other animal: having a depression or hollow in the back, esp. as a symptom of age or disease. Cf. saddleback n. 2.Earliest in extended use, applied insultingly to people. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [adjective] > having particular shape of back saddle-backed?1577 swayed1577 saddleback1677 sway-backed1680 bream-backed1723 swayback1887 ?1577 Misogonus iv. i, in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 243 Had not bene for the saddlebackt grombole Ide gott well by this shifte. 1647 H. Neville Parl. of Ladies (Wing N512A) sig. A3 I confesse he [sc. her husband] is saddle-nos'd and saddlebackt too. 1665 J. Wilson Projectors ii. i. 15 Smithfield at the end of a long Vacation cann't shew such another Wall-ey'd, Crest-falne, Saddle-back't, Flat-rib d, Gut-founder'd, Shoulder-pitcht, Spur-gall'd, Hip-shotten, Greese-moulten jade. 1675 London Gaz. No. 967/4 Strayed or stolen.., a bright Bay Gelding,..a little Saddle-back'd. 1717 J. de Solleysel Compl. Horseman (ed. 3) i. ii. 11 The Back should be straight and not hollow or Saddle-back'd. 1717 A. Tooke tr. F. A. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 7) ii. xiii. 231 He sits upon a Saddle-back'd Ass. 1831 W. Youatt Horse x. 166 Some horses have a very considerable hollow behind the withers. They are said to be saddle-backed. 1895 Westm. Gaz. 29 July 2/3 A thorough~bred Arab..should be..very slightly saddle-backed. To be ‘saddle-backed’ is to have a depression where the saddle would naturally come. 1981 Americas 37 421 The man's horse was a roan mare, thin, saddle-backed, and run down. 3. Of a hill, rock outcrop, etc.: having evenly sloping sides either side of a ridge, esp. where the ridge rises towards each end so as to produce a concavely curved outline reminiscent of a saddle; having such an outline. Cf. saddleback n. 3a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill > [adjective] > saddle-backed saddle-backed1599 1599 J. Welsh in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. ii. 126 It is a hill sadlebacked, and..we saw a row of hils sadlebacked also. 1804 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1956) II. 1125 Below that the Hills are saddle-backed. 1864 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. of London 8 2779 A narrow, saddle-backed ridge. 1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 235 A saddle-backed hill. 1905 Geogr. Jrnl. 26 190 A curious saddle-backed outcrop of granite, generally from about 100 to 200 feet in length and 50 feet in width at the base, terminating at the top in a sharp ridge. 1910 Times 17 Mar. 4/5 The infantry were drawn back from the skyline and placed just behind the crest if it was a saddle-backed hill. 1997 Richmond (Va.) Times Dispatch (Nexis) 23 Feb. a1 The Roanoke Valley has higher, more majestic peaks..and more topographically intriguing ones, such as saddlebacked Tinker Mountain. 4. Architecture. a. Of coping: shaped so as to slope downwards to the edges from a central apex. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > other elements > [adjective] > coping > saddle-backed saddle-backed1834 saddleback1876 1834 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 124/2 Their parapet..should be plain, and their buttresses terminated with a plain saddle-backed coping. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 956 at Coping Coping thicker in the middle than at the edges is called saddle-backed coping. 1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 272 Saddle-back coping, a coping with a sharp apex and flat flanks which slope down from it each side. 1999 R. W. Sovinski Brick in Landscape 65 A preferable solution for coping a wall made entirely of brick is to use a specialized coping brick... Such units include half-round, ogee, saddleback (ridge), bullnose..and double-canted bricks. b. Of a tower, roof, etc.: having or forming a saddleback (saddleback n. 4). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > roofed > in specific manner > specific coupledc1384 thatched1467 stone-heled1578 slate-hung1648 slate-roofed1648 raftered1670 rafted1739 stob-thatched1792 reeded1819 hip-roofed1821 wagon-vaulted1835 span-roofed1842 saddle-backed1853 thatchy1864 tortoise-roofed1886 mansarded1890 monopitch1961 skillion-roofed1967 1853 Archæologia Cambrensis 4 174 Its [sc. the tower's] roof is saddle-backed, or gabled. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 23 A small straight saddle~backed tower. 1915 Times 1 Apr. 5 At the church, with its saddle-backed tower, we bear to the right. 1922 T. G. Jackson in A. Tilley Medieval France ix. 370 Every village round about Caen has a steeple; some of them saddle-backed, others with fine belfry stages and stone spires. 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 7 Nov. 56/4 A sheep-farming community with a hundred and fifty inhabitants and a little church with a saddle-backed tower. 5. Of a bird or mammal: having a saddle-like marking on the back.† saddle-backed crow n. Obsolete = saddleback crow at saddleback n. 7. saddle-backed shrew n. = saddleback shrew at saddleback n. 12. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > feather > [adjective] > having markings of particular shape ermined1486 radiated1793 bridled?a1808 saddle-backed1838 moon-eyed1896 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [adjective] > of or resembling shrew soricine1781 saddle-backed1927 1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Saddle-backed crow, the Royston, or sea-crow, so called from its mixture of black and grey feathers. Sussex. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 12 The Hooded, or Saddle-backed Crows. 1927 H. H. T. Jackson Taxon. Rev. Amer. Long-tailed Shrews 69 A specimen of the American saddle-backed shrew..was mentioned as early as 1772. 1996 Mammalian Species No. 524. 4/1 Although arctic shrew is the accepted common name for S. arcticus.., two additional common names that describe the appearance of this species are saddle-backed and black-backed shrew. †6. Placed astride like a saddle. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side > situated astride saddle-backed1878 1878 J. H. Beadle Western Wilds xxx. 487 Colorado is divided nearly down the center by the main chain of the Rocky Mountains—or, in miner's phrase, ‘saddle-backed across the range’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1545
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