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saddlebow

saddlebow is the alternative form of saddle bow.

Meaning of saddle bow

Noun

saddle bow (plural saddle bows)

  1. The front part of a saddle that is arched up like an archer's bow.
    • the Prince […] stroke the Pagan with his steely brand / So sore, that to his saddle-bow thereby / He bowed low, and so a while did lie […].1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Synonyms of saddlebow

Forms of saddlebow

pluralsaddlebows

Questions about saddlebow

What is saddlebow the alternative form of?
Saddlebow is the alternative form of saddle bow.

Words near saddlebow in the dictionary

  1. saddlebagged
  2. saddlebagging
  3. saddlebags
  4. saddlebill
  5. saddlebills
  6. saddlebow
  7. saddlebows
  8. saddlebred
  9. saddlebreds
  10. saddlebum
  11. saddlebums

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