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a-cock-horse

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback.

archaic

Examples

“We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.”
Then placing the stretcher between his legs in the manner that little boys ride a-cock-horse upon their grand-papa's canes, he began most dolefully to dole out the following ditty.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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