| 单词 | to run on horseback | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasto run on horseback  a.  intransitive. To ride on horseback, typically at a quick pace; to gallop. In later use only more explicitly as  to run on horseback or the like. Now rare.In some early instances perhaps partaking of sense  1e.Sometimes spec. in the context of a race; cf. sense  4a.In quot. c12752   contrasted with ride, the latter apparently denoting riding at an ordinary pace. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal)			[verb (intransitive)]		 > ride rapidly runeOE drivec1300 scurry1580 tantivy1681 to ride triumph1761 jockey1767 tivy1842 spank1843 rocket1862 to let out1889 eOE    tr.  Bede Eccl. Hist. 		(Tanner)	  v. vi. 400  				Þa ongunnan ða geongan biddan þone bisscop.., þæt he him alefde þæt hio ærnan moste & gecunnian, hwelc heora swiftost hors hæfde [L. ut cursu maiore equos suos inuicem probare liceret]. OE    Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in  tr.  Orosius Hist. 		(Tiber.)	 		(1980)	  i. i. 17  				Þonne ærnað hy ealle toweard þæm feo; ðonne cymeð se man se þæt swift[ost]e hors hafað to þæm ærestan dæle. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 4637  				Leoup he an his stede..Hamun arnde upwarð & oðer while adunward. c1275						 (?a1200)						    Laȝamon Brut 		(Calig.)	 		(1963)	 l. 6828  				Heo riden & heo arnden forð mid Vortigerne. c1300    St. Edward Elder 		(Laud)	 l. 52 in  C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary 		(1887)	 48  				His Men pleiden and Arnden bi þe weie. c1330						 (?a1300)						    Arthour & Merlin 		(Auch.)	 		(1973)	 8404 (MED)  				So þai wenten, þai metten a kniȝt Arnand wiþ al his miȝt. c1330						 (?c1300)						    Guy of Warwick 		(Auch.)	 3036 (MED)  				Esclandar is oway fleinde, Ouer þe dounes fast erninde. a1400						 (a1325)						    Chron. Robert of Gloucester 		(Trin. Cambr.)	 		(1887)	 App. H. 804 (MED)  				Mid his sper longe he arnde toward þe dere. c1425    J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. 		(Augustus A.iv)	  iv. 4202 (MED)  				Þe manly knyȝtes ren on horse-bake. a1470    T. Malory Morte Darthur 		(Winch. Coll. 13)	 		(1990)	 I. 30  				Lucas ran to hym with a sherpe spere that was grete, and he gaff hym suche a falle that the horse felle downe to the erthe. a1500						 (a1450)						    Generides 		(Trin. Cambr.)	 3825 (MED)  				Came Natanell as fast as he myght ride, Chasyng an hart as he come Reynyng. 1535    Bible 		(Coverdale)	 2 Macc. v. 2  				Then were there sene..horsmen runninge to and fro in the ayre. 1598    W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1  ii. v. 346  				That sprightly..Dowglas, that runnes a horsebacke vp a hill  perpendicular.       View more context for this quotation 1652    C. Cotterell tr.  G. de Costes de La Calprenède Cassandra 3  				There appeared ten or twelve fresh well mounted Knights, running towards them at full speed. 1720    D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 286  				The Dragoons immediately get a Horseback, and run for it, as they were ordered. 1891    Eng. Hist. Rev. 6 214  				The king tried to recover the lost ground, by running on horseback through the streets of Berlin. 1935    M. A. Otero My Life on Frontier v. 55  				His ability to shoot an arrow entirely through a buffalo when running on horseback. < as lemmas  | 
	
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