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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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
"maker of saddles," c.1300 (late 13c. as a surname), agent noun from saddle (v.).
Wiktionary
n. someone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc
WordNet
n. a maker and repairer and seller of equipment for horses
Wikipedia
Saddler or Saddlers may refer to:
- The occupation of making saddles
- R-16, NATO reporting name SS-7 Saddler
- Osmund Saddler, character in Resident Evil 4
- Saddlers, a town in Saint John Capesterre Parish, Saint Kitts and Nevis
- "The Saddlers", a nickname for the Walsall Football Club based in Walsall, West Midlands
Usage examples of "saddler".
Custer and Mollie had favorite horses, which the saddler began to saddle for them, while Quinn walked along the rows of stalls with Lucky at his side.
He led the horse into the hallway between the rows of stalls and rubbed the glossy neck, glancing at her as the saddler drew nearer.
She led him out of the stall and began throwing the saddle on him when the saddler took it from her.
Mollie while the company saddler got their horses ready and brought them out of the stable.
Miss Saddler, Miss Saddler, this is our Mister Gaffney, one of our outstanding creative ottists.
Kinnison, Private James Howard, Private John Saddler, Private David C.
Adjutant Barnum here divided the band and turned it over to the surgeons to assist in caring for the wounded, and directed Saddler Sergeant Smith and myself to accompany the Colonel in advance.
Late in the afternoon, July 1, I was directed to take Saddler Sergeant Smith and bring to the firing line all the men I could find of the regiment.
Tom Short, who worked as a saddler, left and returned shortly with a claw hammer.
The impositions which the saddler attempted, both in the extravagance of his prices and in charging for articles which he had not furnished, were astonishing.
Great numbers of foreigners and people from the provinces visited the capital, and the return of luxury and the revival of old customs gave occupation to a variety of tradespeople who could get no employment under the Directory or Consulate, such as saddlers, carriage-makers, lacemen, embroiderers, and others.
There were coopers and wheelwrights, cobblers and carpenters, saddlers and candlemakers, all busily at work to maintain the huge household of King Anheg.
Saddler thought it in questionable taste to exhibit a poor microcephalic idiot that way.
Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.
When changing mounts at noon, I caught out two of my best saddlers and tied one behind the chuckwagon, to be left with a liveryman in town.