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eagleback en · NOUN

Etymology

From eagle + back, modelled on horseback.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually, with-on) The back of an eagle (for riding upon).
    • [To fly] on eagleback, or in the form of an eagle, is a widespread religious fancy. Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle. 2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN:
    • […] out of the stag's forehead; he gloats over a continent of cheese and a sea of wine; even on eagleback he finds bladders of gin and good roast-beef-fruit; bread-fruit, plum-pudding-fruit […] 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 189: