saddlebag
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: architecture
cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From saddle + bag.
Compound parts: saddle
bag
Inflected forms:
form: saddlebags
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: saddle bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: saddle-bag
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: saddlebags
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: saddlebagging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: saddlebagged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: saddlebagged
pos: verb
tags: past
form: saddle bag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
form: saddle-bag
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A covered pouch, usually one of a pair, laid across the back of a horse, donkey, or mule behind its saddle, or hanging over the rear wheel of a motorcycle; often made of leather or (on a motorcycle) a rigid material.
pos: noun
examples: By 1482 the printing capital of the world was Venice, and the busiest printer there was a man called Aldus Manutius who used to have a sign outside his shop saying 'If you would speak to Aldus, hurry — time presses'. He had good reason. No single printer did more to spread the printed word than he. Aldus knew that his market, and the market of all printers, lay not in the production of expensive, commissioned editions of the Bible or the Psalms, but in an inexpensive format that could easily be carried in a man's saddlebag wherever he went. So Aldus made his books small, and cheap. The Aldine Editions, as his new format was called, were the world's first pocket books, and they sold faster than he could produce them. Nearly half his workers were Greeks, exiles or refugees from the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. So it was that with the help of his translator-craftsmen, Aldus began the task of translating the Greek classics. When he died, in 1515, no major known Greek authors remained to be translated. Whatever happened in the Greek world, Aldus had ensured that the classical authors would not once again be lost to the West, as they had after the fall of Rome.
Frustrated, rushed, you toss the saddlebags filled with textbooks, ungraded papers, and drafts of poems onto the back of your cruiser motorcycle and roar off down Ambler not thinking speed and a strong crosswind will lift the saddlebags into flight like some leather-winged prehistoric bird hanging in the air a second before flopping onto the busiest street in North Abilene.
Lifting the reins over the horse's head, he tied them to a nearby tree limb and moved back to the saddlebags. Untying the leather thongs that bound them behind the saddle, he picked the saddlebags up, hobbled to a nearby tree, and sat down at its base.
There was no camp, bedroll, or fire and no other sign of a man, just the saddled horse with saddlebags and packs tied on behind it.
gloss: pannier
pos: noun
tags: broadly
nonstandard
gloss: A seat pack or a seat bag (a pouch or a small bag attached to the seat or seat post of a bicycle)
pos: noun
gloss: Loose fatty flesh on a person's upper thighs or buttocks, that hangs like saddlebags.
pos: noun
tags: US
in-plural
informal
examples: The area treated was always the side of the thighs, where she had visible saddlebags.
gloss: A style of house with two rooms separated by a small hall and open space.
pos: noun
gloss: To place in a saddlebag.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put a saddlebag on (an animal).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: saddlebags glider
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: паласки
roman: palaski
lang: Macedonian
word: ви́тки
roman: vítki
lang: Polish
word: zwisający pośladek
lang: Spanish
word: culo caído
lang: Spanish
word: cartucheras