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Saddle vs Buckjumping - What's the difference?

saddle | buckjumping |

As nouns the difference between saddle and buckjumping

is that saddle is a seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal while buckjumping is (of a horse) the action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.

As a verb saddle

is to put a saddle on an animal.

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

    Anagrams

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    buckjumping

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (of a horse) The action of aggressively attempting to buck a rider.
  • * 1863 , , Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts , page 299,
    • But, after a little preliminary buckjumping , Pyrrhus falsified his keeper?s prediction by behaving well and obediently.
  • (Australia) A rodeo event in which the rider attempts to stay in the saddle of a bucking horse for a set period.
  • * 1857 , Godfrey Charles Mundy, Our Antipodes: or, Residence and Rambles in the Australasian Colonies , page 57,
    • The well-known Australian horse-play, called buckjumping , — the like of which I do not remember seeing in any other part of the world, — is not only very disagreeable but extremely dangerous even to the good horseman.
  • * 1893 , Ernest Favenc, Tales of the Austral Tropics , Gutenberg Australia eBook #0600691h,
    • “How well you ride, Mr. McIntyre!” said Miss Webster in the course of the dinner. “I must confess I like to see a bit of good buckjumping .”
    Duncan smiled. “I nearly came to grief under that low brigalow though,” he said.