| 单词 | from, off horseback |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrom, off horseback b. of motion: (Mounting) upon a horse. So from, off horseback. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adverb] > mounting a horse on horseback1490 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) vii. 28 The knyght mounted hastely on horsbake. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 42/1 They founde the kinge with his companie readye to leape on horsebacke. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 420 Counterfeit shapes of men set on horseback. 1704 N. N. tr. T. Boccalini Advts. from Parnassus III. 175 A certain Great King..fell off Horse-back. 1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 285 The Dragoons..get a Horseback. 1740 tr. C. de F. de Mouhy Fortunate Country Maid II. 273 A Man just alighted from Horseback. 1809 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. XV. xii. 429 Set a beggar on horse-back, and he'll ride to the devil. 1899 N.E.D. at Horse-back Mod. He had some difficulty in climbing on horseback. < as lemmas |
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