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saddle bow en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English sadel-bowe, sadel-boȝe, from Old English sadulboga, sadolboga, equivalent to saddle + bow. Displaced non-native arson (“saddle bow”), from Middle English arsoun.

Meanings

1. The front part of a saddle that is arched up like an archer's bow.
   • The Government mobilized the full force of 18,000 mounted gendarmes and sent them picking their way over the sand about as heavily armored as any policeman could be: a long lance in one hand, a sabre at the saddle bow, a rifle across the back, a pistol on the hip. 1931 October 12, “Sand in the Streets”, in Time:
   • the Prince […] stroke the Pagan with his steely brand / So sore, that to his saddle-bow thereby / He bowed low, and so a while did lie […]. 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Forms

Translations (17)

it arcione (front part of saddle) · rup blãncu (front part of saddle) · ro oblânc (front part of saddle) · gl arzón (front part of saddle) · sv framvalv (front part of saddle) · nl zadelboog (front part of saddle) · fi etukaari (front part of saddle) · ca arçó (front part of saddle) · fi nuppi (front part of saddle) · enm arsoun (front part of saddle) · de Sattelbogen (front part of saddle) · fr arçon (front part of saddle) · enm sadel-bowe (front part of saddle) · ru лука́ (front part of saddle) · pl łęk (front part of saddle) · rup ublãncu (front part of saddle) · sv sadelbåge (front part of saddle)