The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SADDLE
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result SADDLE
- Second muddle in tax?
- Sulphur rots mineral affected after being carried up?
- Society go off British silver container
- Notice £500 during emptying of safe? Put it on a horse!
- Joint gets Turkey disqualified from high jump
- Unhappy daughter has extremely large burden
- Led to suffer under sorrowful burden
- Seat for Bible scholar in auction
- Bottom place on top of a mount
- Cut of meat, second to go off
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The straight part
We know that "Seat" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case seat = saddle.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does SADDLE mean?
SADDLE 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.