saddler

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

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

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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.

• (maker of saddles): saddlemaker

• Aldreds, ladders, raddles