saddler

noun

Etymology: From Middle English sadeler, sadelere, equivalent to saddle + -er. Cognate with Old Norse sǫðlari (“saddler”).

1. Someone who makes, repairs and sells saddles, harnesses etc.

   “In making saddles to run and try in, the trees of them are occasionally leaded by the tree-maker or saddler, agreeably to the directions either may receive from his employer; and a four-pound saddle in this way is made to weigh seven pounds.”

   “saddlers and spurriers would be ruined by hundreds.”

2. The harp seal.