boarback

English

Etymology

From boar +‎ back, modelled on horseback.

Noun

boarback (uncountable)

1. (usually with on) The back of a boar (for riding upon).
   • 1968, Robert Hughes, Heaven and Hell in Western Art:

     [...] galloping over the [mountain] on boarback (p. 258), were survivals of the legend of the Maenads in their carnivorous ecstasies.

   • 1987, Jaan Puhvel, Comparative Mythology, →ISBN, page 174:

     [...] rode on boarback. Cathubodua (Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 12.2571) is matched by the ornithomorphous Irish Bodb (catha) '[Battle] Crow' and such other bird-shaped battle-goddesses as Morrigan 'Great Queen'.

   • 2004, Frank Boyden, The Irreverences, Provocations, & Connivances of Uncle Skulky: A Suite of Twenty-one Prints by Frank Boyden:

     [...] for his proposal, on boarback, to the damsel in waiting; she wears an equally elaborate ensemble, delineated by the delicate dashes and strokes of the drypoint needle.

   • 2012 October 30, Moira Young, Rebel Heart, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 55:

     First comes an old woman on boarback, wild haired an bent. Next, a man an woman in a mule cart. She fans flies away from the limp child in her lap. Bringin up the rear, a girl about my age pedals a three-tire trolley. I wait. They pass, too far away to see me […]