Definition of Horsebacks

1. Noun. (plural of horseback) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Horsebacks

1. horseback [n] - See also: horseback

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsebacks

horse thistle
horse tick
horse trade
horse trader
horse trading
horse trailer
horse whip
horse whisperer
horse whisperers
horse wrangler
horseapple
horseapples
horseback
horseback rider
horseback riding
horsebacks (current term)
horsebean
horsebeans
horsebox
horseboxes
horsebreaker
horsebreakers
horseburger
horseburgers
horsecar
horsecars
horsecloth
horsecloths
horsecock
horsecocks

Literary usage of Horsebacks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The University Geological Survey of Kansas: Reports by Kansas Geological Survey (1898)
""horsebacks" as certain peculiar formations occurring in Kansas coal measures are ... horsebacks " are by no means confined to the Kansas coal fields, ..."

2. The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood: A Second Appeal to Common Sense from by Henry Hoyle Howorth (1893)
"... Nordenskiold—horsebacks—Agassiz, Dawson—Crag and tail—Distribution of the stratified and shelly drifts — Russia— Murchison—Scandinavia—D'Archiac, ..."

3. State Geological Survey of Kansas. [Reports] by Kansas Geological Survey (1898)
"horsebacks " as certain peculiar formations occurring in Kansas coal measures are ... horsebacks " are by no means confined to the Kansas coal fields, ..."

4. Report by United States Industrial Commission (1901)
"When the roof falls as the result of horsebacks, rolls, or other extraordinary conditions, as more particularly defined in the fifth paragraph above, ..."

5. The Permian Or Upper Carboniferous Flora of West Virginia and S.W. Pennsylvania by William Morris Fontaine, Israel Charles White, Second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania (1878)
"horsebacks are irregular masses of clay or sandstone, coming down from the roof and cutting out a greater or less thickness of the coal; while rolls are ..."

6. Reports of the Industrial Commission by United States Industrial Commission, James Henderson Kyle, Albert Clarke (1901)
"When the roof falls as the result of horsebacks, rolls, or other extraordinary conditions, as more particularly defined in the fifth paragraph above, ..."

7. Report of Progress by Pennsylvania (1878)
"horsebacks are irregular masses of clay or sandstone, coming down from the roof and cutting out a greater or ..."

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