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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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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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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Bare-skinned warriors on bridleless, saddleless ponies, a small, finely-braided lariat attached to the horse's jaw, sit like graven images upon their favorite steeds.
From Chiquita, an American Novel The Romance of a Ute Chief's Daughter by Merrill Tileston
A saddleless horse strayed along where I was, and I made a jump for the animal.
From Frank Merriwell Down South by Burt L. Standish
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