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a-cock-horse

adv

Definitions

  1. Astride

    Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA