A saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.
Saddle may also refer to:
As a seat
Geography
Meteorology
- A saddle or col, the point of intersection of a trough and a ridge in the pressure pattern of a weather map
Places
- Saddle, Arkansas, a community in the United States
- The Saddle (Garfield County, Colorado), a mountain pass in Garfield County, Colorado, United States.
- The Saddle (Larimer County, Colorado), a mountain pass in Larimer County, Colorado, United States.
- The Saddle (Montrose County, Colorado), a mountain pass in Montrose County, Colorado, United States.
- The Saddle, a mountain in Scotland
Mathematics
- Saddle point, a point on a surface whose neighborhood resembles a saddle
- Monkey saddle, a mathematical surface defined by the equation
- Sources and sinks, vectors field in a point that are neither of the two are sometimes called saddles.
Other uses
- Saddle (artwork), a 1993 sculpture by Dorothy Cross
- Saddle, a cut of lamb
- Saddle, the bearing surface on the bridge of a stringed instrument
- Saddle, or cricket (roofing), a ridge structure on a chimney
- Saddle, a curved component at the top of a tower of a suspension bridge, upon which rests the bridge's cables.
See also