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Saddleback

noun
1.
A pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle).  Synonym: saddle.
2.
A double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end.  Synonyms: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback roof.



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"Saddleback" Quotes from Famous Books



... above it appeal strongly to every wanderer. I had no time to spare for the ascent of Table Mountain, and the tablecloth of clouds indeed forbade me to attempt it. But someone had spoken to me of the Kloof road, which leads to the saddleback between the Lion's Head and Table Mountain, so, taking the Kloof Street tram, I ran with it to its stopping-place and found the road. There the houses are more scattered; the streets are thin. But about every house is foliage; in every garden are flowers. As I mounted the ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts

... large Coyote, half as tall again as Tito, and the dark patch on his shoulders was so large and black that the cow-boys when they came to know him, called him Saddleback. From that time these two continued more or less together. They were not always close together, often were miles apart during the day, but toward night one or the other would get on some high open place ...
— Johnny Bear - And Other Stories From Lives of the Hunted • E. T. Seton



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