different between saddlers vs saddlery

English

Noun

saddlers

1. plural of saddler

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sædl??i/

Etymology

saddle +? -ery

Noun

saddlery (countable and uncountable, plural saddleries)

1. (uncountable) The trade or craft of a saddler.
   • 1792, John Naismith, “Statistical Account of the Parish of Hamilton,” The Edinburgh Magazine or Literary Miscellany, Volume 16, July, 1792, p. 12,^[1]

     A good deal of dressed leather is now sent to London, from whence formerly much of what was used here was brought. Saddlery is carried on to some extent.

   • 1863, Rachel Henning, letter dated 27 January, 1863, in David Adams (ed.), The Letters of Rachel Henning, Penguin, 1969, p. 124,^[2]

     The whole station is engaged in saddlery just now. It is wonderful how soon people learn to do everything for themselves in the bush.

   • 1892, G. A. Henty, The Dash for Khartoum, London: Blackie & Son, Chapter 6, p. 101,^[3]

     He resolved that when winter came he would go into one of the regimental workshops and learn a trade, either saddlery or ferriery, which would enable him to earn his living for a time abroad until he saw something better to do.

   • 1905, John F. Hume, The Abolitionists, Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human Rights, 1830-1864, New York: Putnam, Chapter 6, p. 53,^[4]

     He traveled almost altogether afoot, observing the strictest economy and supporting himself by occasional jobs of saddlery and harness mending.

2. A place of business of a saddler.
   • 1892, James Lane Allen, “A Home of the Silent Brotherhood” in The Blue-Grass Region of Kentucky and Other Kentucky Articles, New York: Harper, p. 185,^[5]

     There is a tinker’s shop and a pharmacy; a saddlery, where the broken gear used in cultivating the monastery lands is mended […]

   • 1931, Ruth Russell, Lake Front, Chicago: Thomas S. Rockwell, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 209,^[6]

     Occasional stores pressed close to the wooden walk, and you got the dry smell of hay-and-feed shops or leathery whiffs from saddleries […]

   • 1990, Suzanne Carmichael, The Traveler’s Guide to American Crafts West of the Mississippi, New York: Dutton, p. 145,^[7]

     Although there are saddleries in almost every Montana town, only a few have national reputations and are convenient for travelers to visit.

3. (uncountable) The inventory and equipment of a saddler; saddles and other horse-riding equipment, or the materials for making them.
   • 1787, “Irish Parliamentary Intelligence,” Walker’s Hibernian Magazine, July, 1787, p. 387,^[8]

     The next article, and the most important article of all to this country, was saddlery. This embraced every part of the leather manufacture, boots, shoes, gloves, &c.

   • 1873, W. E. Griffis, “Inside Japan,” Lippincott’s Magazine, Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873, p. 174,^[9]

     […] we notice that the most gorgeous piece of Japanese saddlery is the crupper, which, even on a pack-horse, is painted crimson and gilded gloriously.

   • 1904, Rudyard Kipling, “The Army of a Dream” in Traffics and Discoveries, London: Macmillan, pp. 272-273,^[10]

     A heap of saddlery was thrown in a corner, and from this each man, as he captured his mount, made shift to draw proper equipment […]

   • 1911, Archibald Marshall, The Eldest Son, New York: Dodd, Mead, 1919, Chapter 10,^[11]

     He heard the creak of saddlery and the thud of a horse’s hoofs on the hard turf behind him.

Translations

Anagrams

• Drysdale, Ledyards, draydels