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A pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle)
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saddleback
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Wikipedia
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The saddlebacks or tieke are two species of New Zealand bird of the family Callaeidae . Both are glossy black with a chestnut saddle. Its taxonomic family is also known as that of the (New Zealand) "wattlebirds" and includes the two subspecies (one for ...
WordNet
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n. a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) [syn: saddle ] a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end [syn: gable roof , saddle roof , saddleback roof ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harp \Harp\ (h[aum]rp), n. [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.] A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 saddle-backed adv. saddle-backed n. 1 A saddle-shaped ridge forming a shallow pass between two peaks. 2 A roof in the same shape, having a gable at each end. 3 Any of various creatures having a saddle-shaped marking on the back. 4 (context geology ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s and thereafter in various senses (of landforms, oysters, etc.), from saddle (n.) + back (n.).
Usage examples of saddleback.
They could name them--Skiddaw and Saddleback, Helvellyn and Fairfield, Langdale Pike and the Gavel, Seatallan and Haycock, and through that circle of grey listening hills they could see the trumpeters moving.
She had found the cabin exactly where he had said it would be, a few kilometers above the top of the chairlift, just north of the saddleback behind which lay the very nascence of the turbulent American River.
Among the minority of adult male mammals that do offer their offspring paternal care are polygynous male zebras and gorillas with harems of females, male gibbons paired off with females as solitary couples, and saddleback tamarin monkeys, of which two adult males are kept as a harem by one polyan-drous adult female.
Elysium loomed beyond, a saddleback in shape, Elysium Mons and Hecates Tholus rearing at each end of a long spine range, five thousand meters higher than the bulge they punctuated: an awesome sight.
At the foot of the saddlebacked steps lay another body, a young, dark-skinned woman who looked as if she had been placed there but an hour before.
Among the minority of adult male mammals that do offer their offspring paternal care are polygynous male zebras and gorillas with harems of females, male gibbons paired off with females as solitary couples, and saddleback tamarin monkeys, of which two adult males are kept as a harem by one polyan-drous adult female.
Then, as against a G science-fictionally intensified twentyfold, he forced his legs to slide forward towards the open door of the Wessex Saddleback.