Word.ws English Dictionary

pickback

pickback is the archaic form of pickaback.

Meaning of pickaback

Adverb

pickaback (not comparable)

  1. (Carried) on the back or the shoulders.
    • For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2

Questions about pickback

What is pickback the archaic form of?
Pickback is the archaic form of pickaback.

Words near pickback in the dictionary

  1. Pickaxe Mountain
  2. pickaxed
  3. pickaxer
  4. pickaxes
  5. pickaxing
  6. pickback
  7. Pickburn
  8. pickchah
  9. pickcheese
  10. pickcheeses
  11. pickchuh

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pickback (page history and authors); pickaback (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pickback.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pickback. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.