Saddle. (Latin, sella; French, selle.)
“The horse … stopped his course by degrëes, and went with his rider … into a pond to drink; and there sat his lordship upon the sally.”—Lives of the Norths.
“Vaulting ambition … oʹerleaps its sell,
And falls oʹ the other …”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, i. 7.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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