saddler
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8.8
- noun
- /ˈsæd.lɚ/
- After his apprenticeship, he became a respected saddler, known for his quality craftsmanship.
Examples
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"Doctor-dem," the saddler said in his rumbling bass, "is he turning?"
Fiction book (1995) -
Tom Short, who worked as a saddler, left and returned shortly with a claw hammer.
Fiction book (1992) -
That on your wedding day she left you at the church door and went off with a saddler named Richard Truton.
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One interesting possibility was an East Windsor saddler named Samuel Belcher.
Academic text (2005) -
As soon as he found a settlement with skilled saddlers, he planned to have a saddle built with a stout post on its front.
Fiction book (1990) -
And the oldest of the litterbearers, Pask the saddler, said in his rumbling bass, "He lives, Makali-dem."
Fiction book (1995) -
To him, this boy Braille, this son of a saddler, this runty bag of bones, was the sort of boy one routinely ignored except to have him stoop to give one a leg up onto a horse.
Academic text (1996) -
The structures for smiths, saddlers, shoemakers, and the like are relics of now-vanished trades and crafts.
Academic text (1990) -
I visit the saddler's workshop and cottage where Louis Braille was born, where at the age of three he blinded himself, and where, during summer vacations from the Paris Institute for the Young Blind, he perfected his code.
Academic text (1996) -
The skilled saddler crafted a beautiful saddle for the championship horse.
Synonyms
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5.7
A person who makes and fixes leather saddles for horses
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word saddler comes from the simple word saddle plus the ending -er, which means 'one who'. A helpful image is a person who makes, repairs, or sells horse saddles and leather riding gear, so a saddler is literally 'one who works with saddles'.