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eagleback

eagleback noun: the back of an eagle (for riding upon).

eagleback: the back of an eagle (for riding upon)
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Noun

eagleback (uncountable)

  1. (usually, with-on) The back of an eagle (for riding upon).
    • […] out of the stag's forehead; he gloats over a continent of cheese and a sea of wine; even on eagleback he finds bladders of gin and good roast-beef-fruit; bread-fruit, plum-pudding-fruit […]1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 189
    • [To fly] on eagleback, or in the form of an eagle, is a widespread religious fancy. Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle.2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN

Origin of eagleback

From eagle + back, modelled on horseback.

Questions about eagleback

What does eagleback mean?
Eagleback means the back of an eagle (for riding upon).
What part of speech is eagleback?
Eagleback is a noun.

Words near eagleback in the dictionary

  1. eagle-hawks
  2. eagle-owl
  3. eagle-owls
  4. eagle-stone
  5. eagle-stones
  6. eagleback
  7. eagled
  8. eagled out
  9. eagled up
  10. Eaglefordian
  11. eaglehawk

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