The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saddle-backed \Sad"dle-backed`\, a.
Having the outline of the upper part concave like the seat of a saddle.
Having a low back and high neck, as a horse.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Shaped or curved like a saddle. 2 Having a saddle-shaped marking; saddleback. adv. (context of riding a horse English) with a saddle, rather than bare-backed
Usage examples of "saddle-backed".
It has been my wont to choose a saddle-backed feather for a dead shaft, and a swine-backed for a smooth flier.
Sometimes he climbed tree, and again he sent me to the upper branches, whence I surveyed a sea of tree-tops waving in the wind, and looked onward to where a green velvet hollow lay nestling on the western side of a saddle-backed ridge.
Ahead, walls of flame were swiftly climbing the saddle-backed ridge along which Monica Mountainway crossed the central spine of the Santa Monica mountains.
At first the archaic map on the shroud of Ahriman proved more maddening than helpful, but after a while, clarified in part by a curiously erudite suggestion of Ahura, it began to make disturbing sense, showing them a deep gorge where the foregoing terrain led one to expect a saddle-backed crest, and a valley where ought to have been a mountain.