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HORSEBACK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The back of a horse
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("horseback" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("horseback" is a part of...):
Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A narrow ridge of hills
Synonyms:
hogback; horseback
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("horseback" is a kind of...):
ridge; ridgeline (a long narrow range of hills)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
On the back of a horse
Example:
policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback
Synonyms:
ahorse; ahorseback; horseback
Classified under:
Context examples:
They set out early in the forenoon, some on horseback, the rest in carriages; I witnessed both the departure and the return.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
"That boy is a perfect cyclops, isn't he?" said Amy one day, as Laurie clattered by on horseback, with a flourish of his whip as he passed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Mars is on the way to help you, which is the equivalent to having the cavalry arriving on horseback with bugles blaring.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I have already told the reader that there were two strong staples fixed upon that side of my box which had no window, and into which the servant, who used to carry me on horseback, would put a leathern belt, and buckle it about his waist.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She has not been out on horseback now this long while, and I am persuaded that, when she does not ride, she ought to walk.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
We can't have the man on horseback, and anything is preferable to the timid swine that now rule.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I performed the first part of my journey on horseback.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
As they were turning into the grounds, Mr. Perry passed by on horseback.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Amongst the objects in the scene, they soon discovered an animated one; it was a man on horseback riding towards them.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
