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Saddleback   Listen
noun
Saddleback  n.  
1.
Anything saddle-backed; esp., a hill or ridge having a concave outline at the top.
2.
(Zool.)
(a)
The harp seal.
(b)
The great blackbacked gull (Larus marinus).
(c)
The larva of a bombycid moth (Empretia stimulea) which has a large, bright green, saddle-shaped patch of color on the back.





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"Saddleback" Quotes from Famous Books



... she's going to be a twister," and he added grimly, as instinctively his eyes sought the saddleback or pass over which the ancient trail of the Sheep-eater Indians ran: "Those game hogs better pull their freight if they count on going out ...
— The Man from the Bitter Roots • Caroline Lockhart
... the author is writing only of what he thoroughly knows and understands. At the Lakes Wilson lived for years, and was familiar with every cranny of the hills, from the Pillar to Hawes Water, and from Newby Bridge to Saddleback. He began marching and fishing through the Highlands when he was a boy, enticed even his wife into perilous pedestrian enterprises with him, and, though the extent of his knowledge was perhaps not quite ...
— Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 • George Saintsbury


Words linked to "Saddleback" :   gambrel roof, saddle, gambrel, saddleback roof, rooftree, trough, saddle roof, gable roof


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