Definitions

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  • adverb archaic On the back of a horse; on horseback.

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  • adjective traveling on horseback
  • adverb on the back of a horse

Etymologies

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From a- +‎ horse.

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Examples

  • It is customary to begin this sort of fight ahorse.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • Fortunately, even though I have ran into lots of bears in the past 27 years, none chose to do anything but stand still or leave whether I was afoot or ahorse.

    Timing is Everything 2008

  • Khal Drogo, far ahead and ahorse, leads his khalasar into the rising sun.

    Episode 2: What comes next? 2010

  • He carried himself well, and he wore his sword comfortably ahorse, but still Albric felt a twinge of doubt.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • It is customary to begin this sort of fight ahorse.

    Trial of Seven grrm 2010

  • It is, of course, exacerbated by judges who then impose personal preferences onto interpretation, forcing more nonsense down the chain I am thinking of a patent case where the judge said mounted meant there was a physical attachment, apparently never having heard of ahorse.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Correcting Students 2009

  • He saw Taizu still ahorse, coming through the press.

    2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

  • The road was now overfull of people on foot, ahorse, driving carts and wagons, pushing bushels by hand, and his tired and nasty-tempered brute of a horse had shouldered aside a handcart, tipping it over so that what it carried had been spilled into the mud of the road.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • : One more bit of damage; the officers were all ahorse, and even if his arrow trick didn't work, if he could drive them off, there would be less control on the battlefield.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • "You four, ahorse stay-help me!" he shouted at them, and they stayed mounted.

    Exile's Honor Lackey, Mercedes 2002

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  • look, Ma! I'm ahorse!

    September 18, 2009