behorsed

comparative more behorsed · superlative most behorsed

1. Provided with or mounted upon a horse.

   Bespeared, behorsed, becannoned o'er […]

   1895, James Henry Cousins, Ben Madighan and Other Poems, page 41

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   At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.

   1925, William George Langworthy Taylor, The Saddle Horse, page 245

   Unless the Mounties are now recruiting pre-pubescent, elfin-faced youths, we have to say that the behorsed custodian was a Royal Canadian Mounted Policewoman.

   1992, British Journal of Photography

   Such evidence could, for example, be injuries brought back from the other side: wounds on the mouths of those who had been “behorsed” and “saddled” were traces of the bit; blue marks, blueness in the face, tiredness, dizziness, or sweat were signs of having been “carried.”

   1999, Between the Living and the Dead