Word Meanings - SADDLERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The materials for making saddles and harnesses; the articles usually offered for sale in a saddler's shop.

• Makeweight
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MAKEBELIEVE
  A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.
• MAKEGAME
  An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.
• Making-iron
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• MAKEPEACE
  A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.
• Making-up
  The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
• Offered
  of Offer
• MAKINGIRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• Offering
  of Offer
• SADDLESHAPED
  Shaped like a saddle. Specifically: (a) (Bot.) Bent down at the sides so as to give the upper part a rounded form. Henslow. (b) (Geol.) Bent on each side of a mountain or ridge, without being broken at top; -- said of strata.
• Makebate
  One who excites contentions and quarrels.
• Make-belief
  A feigning to believe; make believe.
• Offerable
  Capable of being offered; suitable or worthy to be offered.

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