horseback
/ˈhɔɹsˌbæk/ noun B2- The back of a horse. · They came on horseback across the plains.
- A ridge of sand, gravel, and boulders.
Plural horsebacks
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On his way he met a man on horseback who begged the hare of him, under the pretense of purchasing it.
“No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night.”
She did at last extort from her father an acknowledgment that the horses were engaged; Jane was therefore obliged to go on horseback, and her mother attended her to the door with many cheerful prognostics of a bad day.
The delighted recipients of these munificent gifts would gladly have poured out their thanks to their generous benefactor, but they had seen him, upon quitting the hut, merely give some orders to a sailor, and then springing lightly on horseback, leave Marseilles by the Porte d’Aix.
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