unsaddlev.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsadl/, U.S. /ˌənˈsæd(ə)l/ 1. transitive. To remove the saddle from (a horse, etc.). Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > saddle > unsaddle
unsaddle1382
unpanel1620
to saddle off1835
off-saddle1849
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxiv. 32 He ladde hym into the hows of herbergrye and unsadelynge dischargide the camelis.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 367/1 Onsadelyn hors,..desterno.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Gen. xxiv. 32 He vnsadeled the camels and broght lytter & prouander.
1609 R. Armin Ital. Taylor sig. B3v When you shall see The bargaine full assignd, Vnsaddle me, and leaue me sold.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 43 The Horses that he and his company came on standing at the door (for they had not been unsaddled).
1798 Hull Advertiser 8 Sept. 1/4 After a march of ninety miles, without unsaddling our horses.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. 263 Their horses, too, were unsaddled, and turned loose to graze.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Colonial Reformer (1891) 185 His attendants proceeded to unsaddle the whole troop.
2. To dislodge from a saddle. Also figurative.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > keep one's seat on (a horse) > unseat, throw (the rider)
casta1300
unhorse1390
throwa1425
unsaddlea1470
unseat1596
dismounta1616
fall1688
to funk (a person) off1821
unship1831
dishorse1859
to buck off1881
shift1891
a1470 Dives & Pauper (1493) x. v Therfore..kepe you wele in the sadyl of pacience, & let no angre,..no tribulacion, no seknesse unsadle you of pacience.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 42v Helpe me, my horse starteth, and had like to haue..vnsadled me.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1959) IV. 347 A froward and peremptory refuser, unsaddles me at first.
1649 J. Evelyn Let. 22 Mar. in Diary & Corr. (1859) III. 37 Another..whose ambition..is resolved to neglect no tentative..that may unsaddle the General, and fairly hold him the stirrup.
1821 R. Huish Mem. George III I. 10/1 Magnus..engaged Otho personally, and unsaddled him.
1860 G. J. Adler tr. C. C. Fauriel Hist. Provençal Poetry xviii. 404 I expect to unsaddle many a knight on the fair centre of the bridge.
3. To free from spectacles.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > provide with aid to defective vision [verb (transitive)] > free from spectacles
unsaddle1753
1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. xl. 33 The prince unsaddled his nose, and..our hero was introduced in form.
Derivatives
Also attributive.
unˈsaddling n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > saddle > saddling or unsaddling
saddling?c1475
off-saddling1849
unsaddling1855
1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Unsaddling, the act of taking off the saddle.]
1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! I. ii. 31 Sir Richard Grenvil's house is like a very tavern, with eating, and drinking, and unsaddling.
1892 Star 15 June 4/2 The small unsaddling paddock.
1951 People 3 June 7/5 Horses shied; off scampered the rabbit to the unsaddling enclosure.
1972 D. Francis Smokescreen iv. 51 We walked down from the stands and over towards the unsaddling enclosures.
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