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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“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.
On his way he met a man on horseback who begged the hare of him, under the pretense of purchasing it.
“On the night of Sir Charles’s death Barrymore the butler, who made the discovery, sent Perkins the groom on horseback to me, and as I was sitting up late I was able to reach Baskerville Hall within an hour of the event.
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