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boarback en · NOUN

Etymology

From boar + back, modelled on horseback.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually, with-on) The back of a boar (for riding upon).
    • [...] for his proposal, on boarback, to the damsel in waiting; she wears an equally elaborate ensemble, delineated by the delicate dashes and strokes of the drypoint needle. 2004, Frank Boyden, The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky: A Suite of Twenty-one Prints by Frank Boyden:
    • [...] galloping over the [mountain] on boarback (p. 258), were survivals of the legend of the Maenads in their carnivorous ecstasies. 1968, Robert Hughes, Heaven and Hell in Western Art:
    • First comes an old woman on boarback, wild haired an bent. Next, a man an woman in a mule cart. She fans flies away from the limp child in her lap. Bringin up the rear, a girl about my age pedals a three-tire trolley. I wait. They pass, too far away to see me[…] 2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:
    • [...] rode on boarback. Cathubodua (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.2571) is matched by the ornithomorphous Irish Bodb (catha) '[Battle] Crow' and such other bird-shaped battle-goddesses as Morrigan 'Great Queen'. 1987, Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, →ISBN, page 174: