Meanings
saddler1
plural saddlers
- Someone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc.
saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.
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, →OCLC1 more example
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.
1828, Richard Darvill (V.S. 7th Hussars.), A Treatise on the Care, Treatment and Training of the English Racehorse, page 219Synonyms: saddlemaker
- The harp seal.
Saddler2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSomeone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc.
Origin
- Middle Englishsadeler
- Englishsaddler
From Middle English sadeler, sadelere, equivalent to saddle + -er. Cognate with Old Norse sǫðlari (“saddler”).
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Arabic سَرَّاج
- سَرَّاج (sarrāj)someone who makes and repairs saddles
Bulgarian сарач
- сарач (sarač)someone who makes and repairs saddles
Catalan cabestrer, cabestrera
- cabestrersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- cabestrerasomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Czech sedlář
- sedlářsomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Danish saddelmager, sadelmager
- saddelmagersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- sadelmagersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Dutch zadelmaker
- zadelmakersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Esperanto selisto
- selistosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Finnish satulaseppä
- satulaseppäsomeone who makes and repairs saddles
French sellier, bourrelier
- selliersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- bourreliersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
German Sattler, Sattelmacher
- Sattlersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- Sattelmachersomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Hindi ज़ीनसाज़
- ज़ीनसाज़ (zīnsāz)someone who makes and repairs saddles
Italian sellaio
- sellaiosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Latvian seglinieks, segliniece
- segliniekssomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- segliniecesomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Māori kaihanga tera
- kaihanga terasomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Polish rymarz, siodlarz
- rymarzsomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- siodlarzsomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Portuguese seleiro
- seleirosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Punjabi ਜੀਨਸਾਜ਼, جینساز
- ਜੀਨਸਾਜ਼ (jīnsāz)someone who makes and repairs saddles
- جینساز (jensāz)someone who makes and repairs saddles
Romanian șelar
- șelarsomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Russian седе́льник, седе́льщик
- седе́льник (sedélʹnik)someone who makes and repairs saddles
- седе́льщик (sedélʹščik)someone who makes and repairs saddles
Spanish sillero, guarnicionero
- sillerosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- guarnicionerosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- guarnicionerasomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- albardonerosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
- cabestrerosomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Swedish sadelmakare
- sadelmakaresomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Turkish eyerci
- eyercisomeone who makes and repairs saddles
Yiddish זאָטלער
- זאָטלער (zotler)someone who makes and repairs saddles
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Cite this entry
saddler. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/saddler
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