saddler

See also: Saddler

English

Etymology

From Middle English sadeler, sadelere, equivalent to saddle +‎ -er. Cognate with Old Norse sǫðlari (“saddler”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsadlə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsædlɚ/

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Noun

saddler (plural saddlers)

1. Someone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc.
   • 1828, Richard Darvill (V.S. 7th Hussars.), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the English Racehorse, page 219:

     In making saddles to run and try in, the trees of them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.

   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:

     saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.

2. The harp seal.

Synonyms

• (maker of saddles): saddlemaker

Derived terms

• saddler-corporal
• saddler sergeant
• saddlery

Translations

someone who makes and repairs saddles

Albanian: saraç (sq) m Arabic: سَرَّاج m (sarrāj) Armenian: թամբագործ (hy) (tʻambagorc) Bulgarian: сарач m (sarač) Czech: sedlář m Danish: saddelmager c, sadelmager c Dutch: zadelmaker (nl) m Esperanto: selisto Finnish: satulaseppä (fi) French: sellier (fr) m, bourrelier (fr) German: Sattler (de) m, Sattelmacher m Gujarati: જીનગર (jīngar) Hindi: ज़ीनसाज़ (zīnsāz) Italian: sellaio m Kazakh: ерші (erşı) Latvian: seglinieks (lv) m, segliniece (lv) f Macedonian: се́длар m (sédlar), са́рач m (sárač) Maori: kaihanga tera Marathi: जीनगर (jīngar), दलशिंगार (dalśiṅgār) Middle English: sadelere Norman: sellyi m (Jersey) Odia: ଜିନ୍ଗର୍ (or) (jingar) Ottoman Turkish: ایرجی (eyerci), سراج (sarac) Polish: rymarz (pl) m, siodlarz (pl) m Portuguese: seleiro (pt) m Punjabi: ਜੀਨਸਾਜ਼ (jīnsāz), جینساز (jensāz) Romanian: șelar (ro) m Russian: седе́льник (ru) m (sedélʹnik), седе́льщик (ru) m (sedélʹščik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: седлар m Roman: sedlar (sh) m Spanish: sillero (es) m, guarnicionero m, guarnicionera f, albardonero (es) m Swedish: sadelmakare (sv) c Turkish: eyerci (tr) Yiddish: זאָטלער m (zotler)

Anagrams

• Aldreds, ladders, raddles