A-cock-horse
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: A-cock-horse is an adverb meaning (archaic) Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.
Meaning
(archaic) Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.
Example Sentences
Then placing the stretcher between his legs in the manner that little boys ride a-cock-horse upon their grand-papa's canes, he began most dolefully to dole out the following ditty.
We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include ahorse, aboard, ahorseback, horseback, saddle-backed, hot-hoof.
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