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  • 121Saddle ring — A saddle ring is a metal ring attached to the receiver of a rifle or carbine allowing it to be tied to a saddle or used with a special sling.cite web |url=http://www.midwayusa.com/guntecdictionary.exe/showterm?TermID=4194 |title=GunTec Dictionary …

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  • 122saddle — sad|dle1 [ˈsædl] n [: Old English; Origin: sadol] 1.) a leather seat that you sit on when you ride a horse ↑saddle, ↑stand 2.) a seat on a bicycle or a ↑motorcycle 3.) in the saddle informal …

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  • 123Saddle bronc and bareback riding — Bronc riding, either saddle bronc or bareback bronc competition, is a rodeo event that involves a rodeo participant riding on a horse (sometimes called a bronc or bronco ), that attempts to throw or buck off the rider. Originally based on the… …

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  • 124Saddle surface — A saddle surface is a smooth surface containing one or more saddle points. The term derives of the peculiar shape of historical horse saddles, which curve both up and down.Classical examples of two dimensional saddle surfaces in the Euclidean… …

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  • 125saddle — I n. 1) to put a saddle on (a horse) 2) an English; stock, western saddle 3) in the saddle II v. 1) (D; tr.) to saddle for (they saddled a gentle pony for the child) 2) (d; tr.) to saddle with (to saddle smb. with an unpleasant task) * * * [… …

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  • 126Saddle Mountain State Natural Area — Infobox park park=Saddle Mountain State Natural Area image size=150px caption=Saddle Mountain type=Public, state location=Clatsop County, Oregon, United States coordinates= coord|45.96279| 123.6896645|type:mountain region:US|display=title,inline… …

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  • 127Saddle-billed Stork — Taxobox name = Saddle billed Stork status = LC | status system = IUCN3.1 image width = 204px image caption = An adult Saddle billed Stork regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Aves ordo = Ciconiiformes familia = Ciconiidae genus =… …

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  • 128saddle — sad•dle [[t]ˈsæd l[/t]] n. v. dled, dling 1) a seat for a rider on the back of a horse or other animal 2) trs a similar seat on a bicycle, tractor, etc 3) a part of a harness laid across the back of an animal and girded under the belly, to which… …

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