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side-saddle

noun

  1. a riding saddle originally designed for women riders in skirts who sit with both legs on the near side of the horse


adverb

  1. on or as if on a side-saddle

    to be riding side-saddle

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Example Sentences

Hitched to a post, near the hotel, were two gaunt horses with drooping heads, and on one of them was a side-saddle.

She had no side-saddle, and it was very apparent that a firm seat upon the smooth leather beneath her was unattainable sideways.

If I cannot do it any other way, I must take to a side saddle.

And having borrowed a side-saddle, she rode home, apparently quite contented.

And I much prefer your riding in the old-fashioned way with a side saddle.

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