saddleryn.
/ˈsadləri/, U.S. /ˈsædəlri/, /ˈsædləri/ 1. The occupation or craft of a saddler; saddle-making.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > making of other specific articles or materials > [noun] > others
heading1390
saddleryc1449
stiling1509
wax-making?1544
pin-makinga1711
pipe-making1721
keeve-work1776
kelp-making1810
handrailing1814
kelping1822
pin-heading1835
blanket-making1857
safe making1867
stick dressing1891
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle- or harness-making
saddleryc1449
whittawing1566
saddle-making1747
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 49 Euen as sadelarie and talarie ben ij. dyuerse facultees and kunnyngis.
1788 Children's Misc. 29 It was not long before he acquired a very competent knowledge of the art of saddlery.
1850 K. H. Digby Compitum III. 201 Different labours, such as..masonry, carpentry, smithery, and saddlery.
1872 J. Yeats Techn. Hist. Commerce 296 A new impulse was given to saddlery by the introduction of coaches.
1968 Folklore 79 233 Corn-dollies are not a ‘craft’, to be equated with thatching, carving, saddlery and other essential skills.
1975 Times 3 May 14 The upsurge [of interest] applies to many crafts—saddlery,..stone masonry, dry-stone walling among them.
2005 Craftsman Mag. Dec. 29/2 In 2001 the College took over the courses in saddlery and lorinery previously taught at the Cordwainers College.
2. Articles made or sold by a saddler, considered collectively; saddles and other articles used for horse-riding.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle
saddleOE
arsonc1330
sellc1425
girth1706
saddlery1711
suggan1722
straddle1825
pigskin1839
1711 Boston Newslet. 22 Oct. 2/2 To be Sold... Pipes, Sadlery, Bunting, Millenary Goods, [etc.].
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 258 Harness and saddlery of all kinds.
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 77 Whenever a horse makes resistance, the saddlery should be carefully examined.
1874 R. St. J. Tyrwhitt Our Sketching Club 156 Modern boots and saddlery are utterly intractable in a picture.
1887 Viscount Bury & G. L. Hillier Cycling (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 340 A great many firms have made a speciality of cycling saddlery.
1959 J. Prebble Buffalo Soldiers (1964) 118 Byrne left behind..the weakest of the patrol's horse, and its saddlery.
1996 Guardian 18 June i. 14/6 The tents full of waxed coats, saddlery and jodhpurs.
3. A place where saddles, etc., are made or kept; a saddler's shop or workshop.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > tack room
saddle room1749
saddle house1799
saddlery1820
tack room1924
tackle-room1951
1820 Times 10 Nov. 1 He is a saddler by trade, and for three months had been employed in the saddlery of the King.
1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana vi. 60 Premises..occupied as..a saddlery.
1885 Field 4 Apr. 430/1 A room for drying, saddlery, &c.
a1959 D. Devlin Coll. Poems (1989) 232 He who dreams in the saddlery of a smell more intense than the smell of wax.
1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xiii. 93 The forges, the saddlery..troops of squires, aides, and turcopoles.
1993 Holiday Which? Jan. 65/2 An attractive village..with a row of wood-plank shops, including a saddlery, and a tiny church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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