eagleback
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English
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Etymology
[edit]eagle + back, modelled on horseback.
Noun
[edit]eagleback (uncountable)
- (usually with on) The back of an eagle (for riding upon).
- 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, page 189:
- […] out of the stag's forehead; he gloats over a continent of cheese and a sea of wine; even on eagleback he finds bladders of gin and good roast-beef-fruit; bread-fruit, plum-pudding-fruit […]
- 2012 April 24, Robert Graves, The Greek Myths: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Penguin, →ISBN:
- [To fly] on eagleback, or in the form of an eagle, is a widespread religious fancy. Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle.