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a-cock-horse

a-cock-horse adverb: astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.

Adverb

a-cock-horse

  1. (archaic) Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.
    • 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.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • 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.1847, E Howard, chapter XX, in The Old Commodore

Questions about a-cock-horse

What does a-cock-horse mean?
A-cock-horse means astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.
What part of speech is a-cock-horse?
A-cock-horse is an adverb.

Words near a-cock-horse in the dictionary

  1. A-CDM
  2. a-changing
  3. a-choo
  4. A-choy
  5. a-cock-bill
  6. a-cock-horse
  7. a-cross
  8. A-cup
  9. A-cupper
  10. A-cuppers
  11. A-Day

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