Other forms: saddlers
A saddler is a craftsman who makes riding gear from leather. The village saddler, a master saddler, take it to the saddler.
The trade survived the motor car because horses did, and a good saddle is fitted to a particular horse's back — a badly fitting one lames the animal. Saddlery covers bridles and harness as well. The word is simply saddle plus -er.
1nounsaddlerA craftsman who makes riding gear from leather.
“The saddler repaired the horse's bridle and reins in his small workshop.”
saddler is a craftsman.
Saddle plus -er, from Old English sadol, a saddle, from a Germanic root related to sitting.
Middle English
sadeler
English, today
saddler
From Middle English sadeler, sadelere, equivalent to saddle + -er. Cognate with Old Norse sǫðlari (“saddler”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA