pooseback en · ADV
Etymology
From papoose and back, with the form perhaps influenced by piggyback.
Meanings
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(US, dated, dialectal, not-comparable, possibly) piggyback
The hero who valiantly cudgeled his cruel Greek foes back, While safely he brought off his aged old ancestor pooseback?
1870, A free and independent translation of the first and fourth books of the Aeneid, page 10:Poquannum, then, took it pooseback, and carried it rapidly fifty rods further, […]
1857, Putnam's Monthly, volume 10, page 228: