Definition of horseback
: the back of a horse
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For an extra charge, the hotel will arrange tours, horseback rides, biking and other activities within the Sacred Valley.
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After one term in Congress, he was appointed Secretary of the Interior, and arrived for his first day of work on horseback, riding down C Street in a ten-gallon hat and jeans.
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The sheriff's office used detectives, searchers on horseback, helicopters and drones in the search.
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Led by Major Dade on horseback, the blue-uniformed U.S. troops march out in two lines, shouldering muskets and pulling a six-pounder cannon through the pine and palmetto brush.
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An army of about 20,000 Border Patrol agents guards its length on foot and horseback, by all-terrain vehicle and truck, day and night, 365 days a year.
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Each year villagers gather at the Gasthaus Fliegl restaurant, where, accompanied by a brass band in lederhosen, the religious Saint George Society invites locals to join an Easter Monday horseback ride.
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Qatari police officers in national dress, wearing crisscrossing bandoliers, patrol some areas of Doha on horseback, a nod to a time before Qatar’s vast natural gas wealth when rifle-carrying cavalry defended the emirate.
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Police try something new: Cops on horseback, 48 in all.
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First Known Use of horseback
14th century
First Known Use of horseback
1727
Definition of horseback
: given without thorough consideration
- a horseback opinion
Recent Examples of horseback from the Web
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Horseback riders share the trails with hikers at Brett Woods, a 185-acre conservation area.
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First Known Use of horseback
1879
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Definition of horseback for Students
: the back of a horse
- They're traveling on horseback.
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