HORSEBACK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horseback mean? 

• HORSEBACK (noun)
  The noun HORSEBACK has 2 senses:

1. the back of a horse

2. a narrow ridge of hills

  Familiarity information: HORSEBACK used as a noun is rare.

• HORSEBACK (adverb)
  The adverb HORSEBACK has 1 sense:

1. on the back of a horse

  Familiarity information: HORSEBACK used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSEBACK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The back of a horse

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("horseback" is a kind of...):

body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)

Holonyms ("horseback" is a part of...):

Equus caballus; horse (solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A narrow ridge of hills

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

hogback; horseback

Hypernyms ("horseback" is a kind of...):

ridge; ridgeline (a long narrow range of hills)

• HORSEBACK (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

On the back of a horse

Synonyms:

ahorse; ahorseback; horseback

Context example:

policeman patrolled the streets ahorseback

 Context examples 

No, my dear, you had better go on horseback, because it seems likely to rain; and then you must stay all night.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Make yourself easy, there is no danger of that, for I heard Tilney hallooing to a man who was just passing by on horseback, that they were going as far as Wick Rocks.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He can go on horseback, you know.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is because Socialism is inevitable; because the present rotten and irrational system cannot endure; because the day is past for your man on horseback.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a lady on horseback, accompanied by a country-man as a guide.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Ah! said Hans aloud, what a fine thing it is to ride on horseback!

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

The master went out on horseback a great deal, and to accompany him was one of White Fang's chief duties in life.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Scarcely had she so determined it, when the figure of a man on horseback drew her eyes to the window.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

A young farmer, whether on horseback or on foot, is the very last sort of person to raise my curiosity.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

At ten I was on horseback (I hired a gallant grey, for the occasion), with the bouquet in my hat, to keep it fresh, trotting down to Norwood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)