a-cock-horse

adverb

Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.

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Meanings

adverb
  1. archaicAstride; mounted on something as though on horseback.

    Then placing the stretcher between his legs in the manner that little boys ride a-cock-horse upon their grand-papa's canes, he began most dolefully to dole out the following ditty.

    1847, E Howard, chapter XX, in The Old Commodore
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    We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.

    1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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