SADDLE BAGとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From saddle +‎ bag.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsædəlˌbæɡ/
• 韻: -æɡ
• ハイフネーション: sad‧dle‧bag

名詞

saddlebag (plural saddlebags)

1. A covered pouch, usually one of a pair, laid across the back of a horse, donkey, or mule behind its saddle, or hanging over the rear wheel of a motorcycle; often made of leather or (on a motorcycle) a rigid material.
   • 1978, James Burke, Connections, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 105:

     By 1482 the printing capital of the world was Venice, and the busiest printer there was a man called Aldus Manutius who used to have a sign outside his shop saying 'If you would speak to Aldus, hurry — time presses'. He had good reason. No single printer did more to spread the printed word than he. Aldus knew that his market, and the market of all printers, lay not in the production of expensive, commissioned editions of the Bible or the Psalms, but in an inexpensive format that could easily be carried in a man's saddlebag wherever he went. So Aldus made his books small, and cheap. The Aldine Editions, as his new format was called, were the world's first pocket books, and they sold faster than he could produce them. Nearly half his workers were Greeks, exiles or refugees from the Byzantine Empire after the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. So it was that with the help of his translator-craftsmen, Aldus began the task of translating the Greek classics. When he died, in 1515, no major known Greek authors remained to be translated. Whatever happened in the Greek world, Aldus had ensured that the classical authors would not once again be lost to the West, as they had after the fall of Rome.

   • 2006, Robert Adon Fink, Twilight Innings: A West Texan on Grace and Survival‎, page 16:

     Frustrated, rushed, you toss the saddlebags filled with textbooks, ungraded papers, and drafts of poems onto the back of your cruiser motorcycle and roar off down Ambler not thinking speed and a strong crosswind will lift the saddlebags into flight like some leather-winged prehistoric bird hanging in the air a second before flopping onto the busiest street in North Abilene.

   • 2008, David Thomasson, The Ghost of Hollering Woman Creek‎, page 59:

     Lifting the reins over the horse's head, he tied them to a nearby tree limb and moved back to the saddlebags. Untying the leather thongs that bound them behind the saddle, he picked the saddlebags up, hobbled to a nearby tree, and sat down at its base.

   • 2010, Frank W. Lewis, The Gold Rush: 1847-1849‎, page 417:

     There was no camp, bedroll, or fire and no other sign of a man, just the saddled horse with saddlebags and packs tied on behind it.

2. (cycling, nonstandard, by extension) pannier
3. (cycling) A seat pack or a seat bag (a pouch or a small bag attached to the seat or seat post of a bicycle)
4. (in the plural, US, informal) Loose fatty flesh on a person's upper thighs or buttocks, that hangs like saddlebags.

   Synonym: (on the upper thighs) riding breeches

   • 2002, Maria Makarovic, Doctor Help Me Slim Down!: Firm Up and Get Rid of Cellulite!, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 141:

     The area treated was always the side of the thighs, where she had visible saddlebags.

5. (architecture) A style of house with two rooms separated by a small hall and open space.

派生語

• saddlebags glider

動詞

saddlebag (third-person singular simple present saddlebags, present participle saddlebagging, simple past and past participle saddlebagged)

1. (transitive) To place in a saddlebag.
2. (transitive) To put a saddlebag on (an animal).

Further reading

• saddlebag on Wikipedia.Wikipedia