saddlern.
/ˈsadlə/, U.S. /ˈsæd(ə)lər/ 1. A person who makes or deals in saddles or saddlery.Recorded earliest as a surname.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making > saddler or harness-maker
saddler1287
seller1311
fuster1415
collar-maker1481
saddle makerc1500
codder1507
knacker1574
fusterer1600
fustler1605
saddle-tree maker1619
saddle-carpenterc1721
tree-maker1828
whittawer1854
saddle stitcher1910
1287 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London (1899) A. 168 (MED) John Saddler.
1300 Manorial Documents in Mod. Philol. (1936) 34 43 Sadeler.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 42 Yese ordenaunce of fraternyte of Sadeleres and Sporyeres.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 51v (MED) I say not þat he shulde liffe, if one hole celle went out, as Thederic telleþ of þat Cellario, i. a sadler.
1467 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 396 Also, that no Sadeler, Bochor, Baker, ne Glover..shave flesh, skynnes, or huydes, but above the Brugge.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 12 §1 Artificers of the said Realm..Spurriers, Goldbeaters, Painters, Sadlers.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xi. 43 Raymondyn sent for a Sadelmaker, to whom he said: ‘My frend..ye muste cutte this hyde in fourme of a thonge.’.. The Sadler dide cutte it.
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 27 Sadlers souters, Semsters fyn.
1592 R. Greene Quip for Vpstart Courtier sig. F3 The Sadler..makes the lether of them of morts, or tand sheeps skinnes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) i. ii. 56 Oh sixe pence that I had..To pay the Sadler for my Mistris crupper.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 315 One Power may be subordinate to another, as the art of a Sadler, to the art of a Rider.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory Contents sig. **2/2 Also Pewterers, Founders, or Brasiers, Plummers, Card-makers, and Saddlers, with the several parts of a Saddle, Bridle, Pillion, and Side-saddle.
1710 S. Carter Legal Provisions for Poor xiv. 232 None shall hire, or be hired, for less than One whole Year in the Arts of Clothier, Woollen-Weaver..Saddler.
1745 J. Swift Direct. to Servants 73 Come home by the Street Door with the same Bridle..dangling in your Hand, as if you came from the Saddler's.
1776 Pennsylvania Jrnl. 14 Feb. 1/3 [The house] is well situated for a Sadler..or any tradesman.
1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton Eugene Aram I. ii. vi. 297 ‘How long have you had this whip?’ said he to the saddler.
1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 166 Some of the cycling saddlers do not see that their iron-workers cut the threads far enough up the screw.
1904 Daily Chron. 7 Oct. 9/7 Sit[uation] wanted by first-class brown saddler.
1960 Anthropol. Q. 33 171 Most of the men became artisans, trained as masons, carpenters..saddlers, and factory specialists.
2001 Dressage June 36/3 As a saddler, I find the most common problems caused by numnahs are pressure on withers and sore areas caused by binding.
2. Military. Also with capital initial. An official in charge of the saddlery in a cavalry regiment. Also more fully saddler corporal, saddler sergeant.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > others concerned with military affairs > [noun] > farriers and saddlers
saddler1786
farrier1832
shoey1919
1786 Laws State N.-Y. xxv. 39 Each Troop of Horse shall consist of One Captain..Four Corporals, One Saddler.
1815 Times 23 Sept. 4/1 Embezzling or misapplying the sum of 297l. 13s. 4½d sterling..part of which being the salaries of the regimental armourers and saddler.
1865 H. M. Hozier Equipm. Cavalry 30 Organisation..of the Household Cavalry... Composition of a Regiment of Life Guards or Horse Guards... Non-commissioned Officers and Privates... Armourer Corporal, Saddler Corporal [etc.].
1865 H. M. Hozier Equipm. Cavalry 152 Promotion to the superior grade of saddler-serjeant will be open to saddlers.
1898 Cosmopolitan July 300/2 He..asked her to be his own wee wife, an offer which Miss Mac declined in favor of the son and heir of the saddler-sergeant.
1919 Times 30 Oct. 6 Thomas John Spencer, a saddler's staff sergeant, attached to the Artillery,..said our men were in a deplorable condition.
1998 J. D. McDermott Guide Indian Wars of West (1999) ii. 26 Each cavalry regiment..had a saddler sergeant and a chief trumpeter.
3. Canadian. The harp seal, Pagophilus (or Phoca) groenlandicus. Cf. saddleback n. 6.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus phoca > phoca groenlandica (harp-seal)
bedlamer1773
harp-seal1784
saddleback1856
saddler1873
1873 M. Carroll Seal & Herring Fisheries Newfoundland iii. 15 The reason why they are called harp seals, or ‘sadlers’ is, the male as well as the female has a dark stripe on each side from the shoulders to the tail, leaving a muddy white stripe down the back.
1924 G. A. England Vikings of Ice 163 A huge saddler emerges! Startled, it tries to plunge. But—Crack! Swifter speaks the rifle.
4. U.S. colloquial. A horse for riding; spec. an American saddle horse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding
road horseOE
hackney1299
rouncyc1300
mounturec1400
hackney horse1473
steed1597
Galloway1598
roussin1602
naggon1630
saddle horse1647
sit-horse?1652
rider1698
saddle mare1707
hack1737
hack horse1760
ride1787
Bucephalus1799
steed-horse1842
mount1856
saddler1888
saddle seat1895
1888 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 16 June 1/1 Another auction sale of choice family horses (including matched pairs and saddlers).
1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch Apr. 9 A thoroughbred filly, which..bids fair to make a fine saddler.
1904 N.Y. Tribune 17 July in Dict. Amer. Eng. (1944) (at cited word) Mrs. Roosevelt rode her favorite saddler Yganka.
1949 Boston Sunday Globe 1 May (Fiction Mag.) 11/2 Gil had more saddlers than he needed.
1994 S. Butala Perfection of Morning iii. 39 Bridling one of Peter's big, none-too-amenable American Saddlers myself was impossible.
Compounds
General attributive and in the genitive, as saddler craft, saddler shop (also saddler's shop), saddler tools (also saddler's tools), etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [adjective] > relating to saddle-making
saddler1417
1417 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 183 Item, that na upphalder wyrk in girdelercrafte, that es for to say, castyng sadiller nayle, broches, or chapes, bot if he pay to the girdeler pageant vj d. by yere.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 Whanne that a point or a treuthe..of sadeler craft is affermed.
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 315/2 A Sadyller schoppe, sellarium.
1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 584 Ane craftisman of the saidlar craft.
1622 Perth Kirk S. MS 15 July Anent sum saidler wark.
1765 G. A. Patrick Agric. & Commerce 12 Tear and wear Of collar bones, and saddler gear.
1817 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 3 Sept. The ground on which stood the dwelling, store, store house and saddler shop..has..been carried down the River.
1882 Times 5 Sept. 8/1 Four sets of saddler's tools..will remain at the base.
1921 Bedford (Pa.) Gaz. 21 Dec. 5 Blacksmith and carpenter tools, cross cut saws, saddler tools.
1937 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 17 2 Many a name which enjoyed social or political prestige in the ante-bellum decades was first made known to the community on a sign over a saddler's shop.
1967 New Eng. Q. 40 147 While still a young man, he had gone to Wheeling, Virginia, where he learned the saddler's trade.
2001 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 24 Jan. 14 Why should a village saddler shop need a website when its customers are local?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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