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bare-backed

bare-backed adjective: without a saddle.

Adjective

bare-backed (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle
  2. With a bare back
    • Before I could answer, a ravishing creature in one of those long, bare-backed gowns which I’d gathered from advertisements were the modern woman’s evening dress, strolled past our table.1949, Monica Baldwin, chapter 10, in I Leap over the Wall: A Return to the World after Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent, London: Hamish Hamilton, section 2, page 244
    • At the edge of the woods stood an Indian in worn buckskins and heavy furs; with him were what looked like two white men bundled up against the cold, and all three were staring at a bearded, bare-backed man who was tied to a small maple tree, the skin on his back already branded with sticky red...1982, June Lund Shiplett, chapter 18, in Thunder in the Wind (Tides of Passion), New York, N.Y.: Signet, New American Library, published January 1983, →ISBN, page 340

Adverb

bare-backed (not comparable)

  1. Without a saddle

Forms of bare-backed

alternative formbareback
alternative formbarebacked

Words formed from bare-backed

Questions about bare-backed

What does bare-backed mean?
Bare-backed means without a saddle.
What part of speech is bare-backed?
Bare-backed can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near bare-backed in the dictionary

  1. bare trusts
  2. bare with
  3. Bare'e
  4. bare-arse
  5. bare-assed
  6. bare-backed
  7. bare-backedness
  8. bare-bellied
  9. bare-bellied Joe
  10. bare-bellied Joes
  11. bare-boned

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