saddle horse

Questions about saddle horse

What does saddle horse mean?

saddle horse means "a lightweight horse kept for riding only".

What is another word for saddle horse?

Close synonyms include riding horse, mount. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is saddle horse a common word?

saddle horse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.