sidesaddle

[ sahyd-sad-l ]

noun
  1. a saddle for women on which the rider sits, facing forward, usually with both feet on the left side of the horse.

adverb
  1. seated on a sidesaddle: The girl hunted sidesaddle.

Origin of sidesaddle

1
1485–95; earlier syd saddyl.See side1, saddle

Words Nearby sidesaddle

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How to use sidesaddle in a sentence

  • There are women who ride sidesaddle in the West; but they do not ride into the rough trails that we are going to attempt.

    Ruth Fielding In the Saddle | Alice B. Emerson
  • You want a horse and sidesaddle to carry off some girl to-night.

    The Purple Land | W. H. Hudson
  • "I don't know where you will get a sidesaddle," Stanwood had demurred when the purchase was first proposed.

    Peak and Prairie | Anna Fuller
  • On occasion of ceremony they ride sidesaddle, but when hunting and hawking they go astride in wholly masculine manner.

    Life on a Mediaeval Barony | William Stearns Davis
  • I don't think I'd say anything about—the sidesaddle to Miss Lorton—yet.

    Nell, of Shorne Mills | Charles Garvice

British Dictionary definitions for side-saddle

side-saddle

noun
  1. a riding saddle originally designed for women riders in skirts who sit with both legs on the near side of the horse

adverb
  1. on or as if on a side-saddle: to be riding side-saddle

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