boarback

boarback noun: the back of a boar (for riding upon).

Noun

boarback (uncountable)

(usually, with-on) The back of a boar (for riding upon).
- [...] galloping over the [mountain] on boarback (p. 258), were survivals of the legend of the Maenads in their carnivorous ecstasies.1968, Robert Hughes, Heaven and Hell in Western Art
- [...] rode on boarback. Cathubodua (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.2571) is matched by the ornithomorphous Irish Bodb (catha) '[Battle] Crow' and such other bird-shaped battle-goddesses as Morrigan 'Great Queen'.1987, Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, →ISBN, page 174

[...] for his proposal, on boarback, to the damsel in waiting; she wears an equally elaborate ensemble, delineated by the delicate dashes and strokes of the drypoint needle.2004, Frank Boyden, The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky: A Suite of Twenty-one Prints by Frank Boyden:
First comes an old woman on boarback, wild haired an bent.2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:

From boar + back, modelled on horseback.

What does boarback mean?: Boarback means the back of a boar (for riding upon).
How do you use boarback in a sentence?: [...] for his proposal, on boarback, to the damsel in waiting; she wears an equally elaborate ensemble, delineated by the delicate dashes and strokes of the drypoint needle.
What part of speech is boarback?: Boarback is a noun.

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