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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saddlebag

also saddle-bag, 1774, from saddle (n.) + bag (n.).

Wiktionary
saddlebag

n. 1 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 bicycle or motorcycle; often made of leather or (on a bicycle or motorcycle) a rigid material. 2 (context in the plural English) Loose fatty flesh on a person's upper thighs or buttocks, that hangs like saddlebags. 3 (context architecture English) A style of house with two rooms separated by a small hall and open space.

WordNet
saddlebag

n. a large bag (or pair of bags) hung over a saddle

Wikipedia
Saddlebag
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Saddlebags are bags that are attached to saddles.

Usage examples of "saddlebag".

Pressed together like a sandwich, the paired boards could carry twice as much weight, most of it in saddlebags slung on the underside.

While a batch of coneflower tea brewed, Cale took a small buckskin bag from inside his saddlebag and sprinkled a yellow powder over her body.

Messenger dogs would carry messages between their two handlers as well as small amounts of ammunition, medicine and other supplies in saddlebags to units that could not be reached otherwise because of enemy fire.

In the cold grey light, men pulled wet clothes from soggy saddlebags and spread them out to dry, then lined up at the provision wagons for clammy flatbread and sopping strips of dried beef.

Perrin was to order four horses saddled, and who was his master, and what he was doing all bundled up to travel in the middle of the night, and did Master Furlan know he was sneaking off like this, and what did he have hidden in those saddlebags, and what was wrong with his eyes, was he sick?

Alaire asked, stowing the harps carefully away in their canvas sacks, which became a balanced pair of saddlebags.

Hal strongly suggested that she had seen him stuffing two saddlebags with golden horseshoes, and the hard stare of her blue eye made him feel guilty about it.

Nolar forced herself to search out some shattered journeycake from her saddlebag and prepare a mush of it for Elgaret.

There was a saddlebag with spanner and oilcan, but no clue as to the owner.

They threw the saddles and saddlebags in a circle on the treated cloths that would keep the beetles away.

I put the sulfa back in my saddlebags, but I could not tear myself away from the scene.

His saddlebags lay inside, still protected from the fire, one side bulging with the banner of Lews Therin Telamon, the wooden flute case beside them.

With hasty care Lan began examining cinches and girth straps, and the leather ties that held saddlebags, water-skins, and blanket-rolls behind the saddles.

John Grady to pull the staples with a catspaw and stand on the wires while Rawlins led the horses through and then raise the wires back and beat the staples into the posts and put the catspaw back in his saddlebag and mount up to ride on.

The wind had gotten stronger and chillier the higher Longarm climbed, so before he left the horse he took his jacket from the saddlebags and put it on.