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Daddle vs Saddle - What's the difference?

daddle | saddle |

As verbs the difference between daddle and saddle

is that daddle is to walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle while saddle is to put a saddle on an animal.

As a noun saddle is

a seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.

daddle

English

Verb

  • (intransitive, archaic, or, dialectal) To walk unsteadily; totter; dawdle
  • *1869 , Thomas Collins, The life of the rev. Thos. Collins
  • *:I had to wait an hour at the station for the coming of his train. It was passed pleasantly in reading, ' The Victory Won,' an interesting narrative of the salvation of a sceptical physician. When uncle arrived, he and I daddled along a pretty narrow lane.
  • To diddle (cheat)
  • *1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island)
    • "Thunder!" he cried. "A week! I can't do that; they'd have the black spot on me by then. The lubbers is going about to get the wind of me this blessed moment; lubbers as couldn't keep what they got, and want to nail what is another's. Is that seamanly behavior, now, I want to know? But I'm a saving soul. I never wasted good money of mine, nor lost it neither; and I'll trick 'em again. I'm not afraid on 'em. I'll shake out another reef, matey, and daddle 'em again."

    Derived terms

    * diddle-daddle

    saddle

    English

    (wikipedia saddle)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) sadol, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal
  • An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal
  • A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle etc
  • A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone
  • A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 483:
    • With Lizzie leading, they scrambled quickly over several false peaks towards the saddle .
  • The raised floorboard in a doorway.
  • (construction) A small tapered/sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
  • (nautical) A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
  • (engineering) A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
  • The clitellus of an earthworm.
    • Derived terms
    (terms derived from saddle) * dressage saddle * English saddle * in the saddle * jumping saddle * park saddle * packsaddle * racing saddle * saddle beast * saddleback * saddlebag * sidesaddle * Western saddle

    Etymology 2

    Old English sadolian

    Verb

    (saddl)
  • To put a saddle on an animal.
  • To get into a saddle.
  • (idiomatic) To burden or encumber.
  • (idiomatic) To give a responsibility to someone.
    • He has been saddled with the task of collecting evidence to the theft.

    See also

    * sidle

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