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Definition of Horsebacks
1. horseback [n] - See also: horseback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horsebacks
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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