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behorsed en · ADJ

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. Provided with or mounted upon a horse.
   • 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:
   • 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:
   • Bespeared, behorsed, becannoned o'er […] 1895, James Henry Cousins, Ben Madighan and Other Poems, page 41:

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