The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word SADDLES
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More clues leading to the result SADDLES
- Leaves very quickly brushing off sheep tick burdens
- Seats become rotten aboard ship
- Less bothered about increase in seats
- On board get rotten seats
- Jockeys are given these handicaps
- Less worried about total burdens
- Restricts theologian involved in deals
- Mix up, in Social Security, passes
- Blue sled getting altered seats for riders
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The straight part
We know that "Jockeys are given these/handicaps" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case jockeys are given these/handicaps = saddles.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does SADDLES mean?
SADDLES noun- A seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- An item of harness (harness saddle) placed on the back of a horse or other animal.
- A seat on a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.
- A cut of meat that includes both loins and part of the backbone.
- A low point, in the shape of a saddle, between two hills.
- A formation of gold-bearing quartz occurring along the crest of an anticlinal fold, especially in Australia.
- The raised floorboard in a doorway.
- A small tapered or sloped area structure that helps channel surface water to drains.
- A block of wood, usually fastened to one spar and shaped to receive the end of another.
- A part, such as a flange, which is hollowed out to fit upon a convex surface and serve as a means of attachment or support.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- Any of the saddle-like markings on a boa constrictor.
- A saddle shoe.
- To put a saddle on (an animal).
- To get into a saddle.
- To burden or encumber.