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saddlesnounpl. of saddle a narrow opening between hillsides or mountains that can be used for passagethe next day's hike was a stiff climb out of the saddle where they had camped for the night canyons(also cañons), cols, couloirs, defiles, flumes, gaps, gills(British), gorges, gulches, gulfs, kloofs(South African), linns(chiefly Scottish), notches, passes, ravines abysses, chasms, cirques, clefts, crevasses, crevices, cwms(chiefly British), fissurescombes(also coombes or coombs, British), dales, dells, glens, hollows, shut-ins, vales, valleysbasins, floodplains, kettlesarroyos, barrancas(also barrancos), coulees, draws, gullies(also gulleys), gutters, nullahs, trenches, troughs, wadis, washes(West) saddlesverbpresent tense third-person singular of saddleto place a weight or burden onto the social worker it seemed as though her supervisor had once again saddled her with a truly hopeless case burdens, encumbers, freights, ladens, lades, loads, lumbers, weights clogs, clutters, fills, packsheaps, mounds, piles, stackspresses, weighsstrains, taxesoverburdens, overloads, overtaxes, surchargeshampers, handicapsafflicts, oppresses disburdens, discharges, disencumbers, unburdens, unlades, unloads alleviates, eases, lightens, relieves |