Crossword clues for saddleback
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 the fingers.
(Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.
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A grain sieve. [Scot.]
[AE]olian harp. See under [AE]olian.
Harp seal (Zo["o]l.), an arctic seal ( Phoca Gr[oe]nlandica). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also saddler, and saddleback. The immature ones are called bluesides; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.
Harp shell (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus Harpa, of several species, found in tropical seas. See Harpa.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
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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 English) An anticlinal. 5 (context UK English) the great black-backed gull. 6 (context NZ English) a bird Philesturnus carunculatis. Etymology 2
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(context slang English) To engage in anal sex with the intention of preserving one's virginity (context chiefly by Christian teenagers English)
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
In general, a saddleback is the shape of a saddle.
Saddleback can also refer to:
Fauna
- Saddleback (bird), an endemic bird in New Zealand
- Saddleback caterpillar, a moth larva with a painful sting
- Saddleback clownfish
- Saddleback toad
- One of a number of breeds of domestic pig;
- British Saddleback
- Wessex Saddleback
- Angeln Saddleback
Geographic features
- Saddleback Mountain (disambiguation)
- Saddleback Point, South Shetland Islands
- Saddleback Valley, California, USA
Institutions, schools, and organizations
- Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California
- Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California
- Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, California
- Saddleback Valley Unified School District
Miscellaneous
- Saddleback roof
- Saddleback Maine (ski resort), a ski area on Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley, Maine.
- Saddle point, a mathematical structure sometimes unofficially called a "saddleback."
- Saddlebacking, a sexual act.
- Saddleback Leather Company, a leather goods company
Saddleback, sometimes called Old Saddleback or Saddleback Mountain, is the landmark formed by the two highest peaks in the Santa Ana Mountains and the ridge between them. This formation, which resembles a saddle when viewed from most of Orange County, California, dominates the county's eastern skyline, and on the clearest days can be seen from most of the Greater Los Angeles Area.
Santiago Peak is the highest peak in the range and the highest point in the county at . Modjeska Peak is the second highest at . The two peaks form part of the border between Orange and Riverside Counties.
The hilly land in south Orange County is known colloquially as Saddleback Valley, and hence many institutions are named after Saddleback, including Saddleback Church, Saddleback College, and the Saddleback Valley Unified School District.
Driving up through Silverado Canyon, you will notice igneous volcanic rock, which indicates that Saddleback Mountain was formed prior to the San Andreas fault line, back when there was a subduction zone of the Pacific Ocean going under California.
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 each main island) of the kÅkako as well as the extinct huia. All members of this family have coloured fleshy appendages on either side of the beak known as "wattles". In the case of the saddlebacks, they are a vivid red in colour.
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.