saddleless
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a word derived from
saddle.
saddlenouna seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal.
Example Sentences
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The new Water Carrier-Emperor was said to have ridden into Kabul on a saddleless horse, guiding the beast by knee pressure, whooping triumphantly, and ambidextrously brandishing two rifles.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Marino Marini's entry was Cavaliere, a horse and rider that appeared to have just paused in the middle of a saddleless, bridleless journey.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I'd lost my gun; And Bell, whose girth had come undone, Rode saddleless.
From Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses by Madison Julius Cawein
Therefore he set to and quickly kicked us both off, I being involved in my brother's débacle, and he, though a very good man on a horse, not being accustomed to a saddleless donkey.
From Fifty Years of Golf by Horace G. Hutchinson
They put the prisoner astride the saddleless horse and made their way slowly to the ranch house.
From Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr