Word Meanings - SADDLETREE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The frame of a saddle. For saddletree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin. Cowper.

Related words: (words related to SADDLETREE)

• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• SCARCEMENT
  An offset where a wall or bank of earth, etc., retreats, leaving a shelf or footing.
• BEGIN
  beginnen, OHG. biginnan, Goth., du-ginnan, Sw. begynna, Dan. begynde); pref. be- + an assumed ginnan. sq. root31. See Gin to 1. To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God
• JOURNEYER
  One who journeys.
• JOURNEY-BATED
  Worn out with journeying. Shak.
• SADDLECLOTH
  A cloth under a saddle, and extending out behind; a housing.
• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• SCARCENESS; SCARCITY
  The quality or condition of being scarce; smallness of quantity in proportion to the wants or demands; deficiency; lack of plenty; short supply; penury; as, a scarcity of grain; a great scarcity of beauties. Chaucer. A scarcity of snow would raise
• SCARCE
  escars, eschars, LL. scarpsus, for L. excerptus, p. p. of excerpere to pick out, and hence to contract, to shorten; ex + 1. Not plentiful or abundant; in small quantity in proportion to the demand; not easily to be procured; rare; uncommon. You
• SADDLE
  A block of wood, usually fastened to some spar, and shaped to receive the end of another spar. (more info) OHG. satal, satul, Icel. söedhull, Dan. & Sw. sadel; cf. Russ. 1. A seat for a rider, -- usually made of leather, padded to span comfortably
• SADDLE-BACKED
  1. Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle. 2. Having a low back and high neck, as a horse.
• JOURNEYMAN
  Formerly, a man hired to work by the day; now, commonly, one who has mastered a handicraft or trade; -- distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.
• SCARCE; SCARCELY
  1. With difficulty; hardly; scantly; barely; but just. With a scarce well-lighted flame. Milton. The eldest scarcely five year was of age. Chaucer. Slowly she sails, and scarcely stems the tides. Dryden. He had scarcely finished, when the laborer
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• SADDLEBACK
  See SADDLE
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• JOURNEY
  day's journey, OF. jornée, jurnée, a day, a day's work of journey, F. journée, fr. OF. jorn, jurn, jor a day, F. jour, fr. L. diurnus. See 1. The travel or work of a day. Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• UNSADDLE
  1. To strip of a saddle; to take the saddle from, as a horse. 2. To throw from the saddle; to unhorse.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
• OUTREACH
  To reach beyond.