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behorsed

adj

Etymology

From be- + horse + -ed. Compare Old English behorsian.

  1. derived from *ḱers-✻ — “to run”
  2. inherited from *ḱr̥sós✻ — “vehicle”
  3. inherited from *hrussą✻ — “horse”
  4. inherited from *hross✻
  5. inherited from hors — “horse”
  6. inherited from hors
  7. formed as behorsed — “be- + horse + -ed”

Definitions

  1. Provided with or mounted upon a horse.

    • Bespeared, behorsed, becannoned o'er […]
    • At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.
    • 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.

The neighborhood

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