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are Husqvarna brand. I've heard they are among the best built in the world.
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Isn't a saddle a low-lying, flattish area between two hills--like a plateau between two hills--but not as low-lying as a valley?Yes, WW. But what would you call an area between saddles, D'entre (les) sangles? I was thinking of it as the same as the area between hills (i.e. "valleys"), though I suppose it may just as well be "peaks" that lie between saddles.  I think I'll just go off and count Stobbies somewhere.
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The widespread terminology for saddle in Alabama is "Gap".
The term water gap indicates that the flow of water that downcut the mountain still flows. While a wind gap indicates that the stream that downcut the mountain has long since found other outlets and today no water flows. A "saddle" as such, seems better descriptive of low breaks in mountains out west.
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The widespread terminology for saddle in Alabama is "Gap"
Interesting. I thought the defining characteristic of a saddle was that it had negative curvature. That is, it would be concave upward in the x-axis and convex upward in the y-axis, like a saddle.
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Well, I just tried to google a picture of a saddle and didn't find much that was good.
Here's a general definition from MW:
3 a : a ridge connecting two higher elevations b : a pass in a mountain
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Viking sewing machines are made under the same umbrella as Husqvarna... in fact, IIRC, their industrial machines may be marketed under the Husky name.
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The widespread terminology for saddle in Alabama is "Gap" - Milum Interesting. I thought the defining characteristic of a saddle was that it had negative curvature. - Faldage What Faldage! Negative curvature? Negative curvature is, in fact, a straight line. But surely you recognize that analogies by their essence are suggestive rather than exact. ___  Uh...you do don't you? ______________  __________
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Just to belabor a point from MW...the second meaning of saddle, geographically speaking, was: b : a pass in a mountain
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...and that supports the Alabamian application of gap for saddleBut it doesn't support the photographs I've seen of mountain saddles that showed elevations more like the first part of the definition. See MW part a. in my post aboveGood to have a knapsack filled with various applications.
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Just heard from a former AWADer who provided this url. It's a useful one because it has illustrations and topo sketches: http://www.map-reading.com/ch10-6.php
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that supports the Alabamian application of gap for saddle
I was just concerned with the notion that water would flow through a saddle; given that a saddle has negative curvature (I defined it, Mr. M., it ain't no straight line) the water would have to flow uphill at some point for it to be a water gap.
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