upsaddle, verb
- Origin:
- DutchShow more Calque formed on Dutch opzadelen to saddle (a horse).
obs.
1. transitive. To saddle and mount (a horse). Cf. off-saddle verb sense 2.
1834 T.H. Bowker Journal. 28 Dec.Before we could up saddle the horses word came in that the kafirs were taking the cattle.
1860 A.W. Drayson Sporting Scenes 68When the traveller is again ready, the animal is again up-saddled, and the journey continued.
2. intransitive. To mount and prepare to ride off; to saddle up, see saddle sense 2. Cf. off-saddle sense 1. See also opsaal sense 1.
1838 T. Shone Diary. 24 Dec.When about nine o’clock we up saddle to make a start.
3. intransitive. nonce. Of a horse: to be readied for a journey.
1856 R.E.E. Wilmot Diary (1984) 41While the horses were up saddling, Bartley and I rode down to..Alice.
To saddle and mount (a horse).
To mount and prepare to ride off; to saddle up, see saddle sense 2.
to be readied for a journey.
- Derivatives:
- Hence up-saddling participial adjective.1953 B. Fuller Call Back Yesterday 24Upon this old up-saddling ground the town of Pietersburg was founded.
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