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saddling up

saddling up is the present participle and gerund of saddle up.

Meaning of saddle up

Verb

saddle up (third-person singular simple present saddles up, present participle saddling up, simple past and past participle saddled up)

  1. (intransitive) To set and cinch a saddle on a horse in preparation for riding.
    • Saddle up, men! We've got a lot of riding to do today.
  2. (transitive) To set and cinch a saddle in preparation for riding.
    • He saddled up his father's horse as usual.
  3. (slang, uncommon) To engage in sexual intercourse.

Questions about saddling up

What is saddling up the present participle and gerund of?
Saddling up is the present participle and gerund of saddle up.

Words near saddling up in the dictionary

  1. saddletree
  2. saddletrees
  3. saddlewise
  4. Saddleworth
  5. saddling
  6. saddling up
  7. saddling with
  8. saddlings
  9. saddo
  10. saddoes
  11. saddos

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Adapted from Wiktionary: saddling up (page history and authors); saddle up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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