Western saddle

American  

noun

1. a heavy saddle having a deep seat, high cantle and pommel, pommel horn, wide leather flaps for protecting the rider's legs, and little padding.

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Etymology

Origin of Western saddle

An Americanism dating back to 1910–15

Example Sentences

It was the vaquero who developed the initial incarnations of the so-called Western saddle, with its distinctive “horn,” used both as a grip and for securing ropes.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2026

Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record of it."

From Time Magazine Archive

A few props rivet the playgoer's eye: an ancient desk piled high with books and yesterday's newspapers, a sawhorse with a Western saddle draped over it, a picture of a turn-of-the-century cowboy.

From Time Magazine Archive

The President may enjoy the creak of a Western saddle, but he is not nearly as at home on the range as his Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige.

From Time Magazine Archive

The main thing, though, was that tooled-leather Western saddle he toted, which like I said was ornamented with silver.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns