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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Harp \Harp\ (h[aum]rp), noun [OE. harpe, AS. hearpe; akin to D. harp, G. harfe, OHG. harpha, Dan. harpe, Icel. & Sw. harpa.]

1. A musical instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

2. (Astron.) A constellation; Lyra, or the Lyre.

3. A grain sieve. [Scot.]

{[AE]olian harp}. See under {[AE]olian}.

{Harp seal} (Zo["o]l.), an arctic seal ({Phoca Gr[oe]nlandica}). The adult males have a light-colored body, with a harp-shaped mark of black on each side, and the face and throat black. Called also {saddler}, and {saddleback}. The immature ones are called {bluesides}; their fur is white, and they are killed and skinned to harvest the fur.

{Harp shell} (Zo["o]l.), a beautiful marine gastropod shell of the genus {Harpa}, of several species, found in tropical seas. See {Harpa}.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Saddler \Sad"dler\, noun One who makes saddles.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A harp seal.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

saddler

noun

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

70 Moby Thesaurus words for "saddler": baker, bidet, bookdealer, bookseller, butcher, carriage horse, cart horse, cavalry horse, chandler, clothing merchant, confectioner, draft horse, draper, dray horse, driving horse, drysalter, fill horse, filler, fishmonger, fishwife, florist, footwear merchant, fruiterer, furnisher, furrier, gigster, greengrocer, grocer, groceryman, haberdasher, hack, hackney, hardwareman, hunter, ironmonger, jeweler, jument, lead, leader, liquor merchant, mount, newsdealer, pack horse, palfrey, perfumer, plow horse, pole horse, polo pony, post-horse, poulterer, remount, rider, riding horse, road horse, roadster, rouncy, saddle horse, shaft horse, stalking-horse, stationer, sumpter, sumpter horse, thill horse, thiller, tobacconist, vintner, wheeler, wheelhorse, wine merchant, workhorse