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Definition of ahorseback in English:
ahorseback
(also a horseback, a-horseback)
adverb
USinformal, archaic
On horseback.
Origin
Late 15th century; earliest use found in William Caxton (1415x24–1492), printer, merchant, and diplomat. Apparently from on horseback, with reduction of the first element.
