Bare-backed
with the back of a horse, burro, etc., bare; without a saddle:
to ride bareback; a bareback rider.
historical examples
but i confess i did sometimes enjoy a regular good gallop on a bare-backed horse, and riding-habits won’t do for that.’
the dictator justin mccarthy
catch a horse by the mane and mount him by the fence and canter off bare-backed?
the wide, wide world susan warner
she spent almost all her leisure time with the colts, and i believe she used to ride them bare-backed.
red rose and tiger lily l. t. meade
a bare-backed ride of thirteen miles had made me pretty tired.
in the ranks of the c.i.v. erskine childers
so, if we canna fit them wi’ a saydel, we’ll tak a ride aff them bare-backed.
the cruise of the midge (vol. ii of 2) michael scott
i at once had a vision of myself as a black man riding round a circus on a bare-backed horse and jumping through hoops.
castellinaria henry festing jones
he set off at once, but luckily for her she had often ridden a bare-backed horse.
the atlantic monthly, volume 17, no. 99, january, 1866 various
unflattered, unmoved, he sagged to one side of the bare-backed horse with the easy grace of one accustomed to the saddle.
the dude wrangler caroline lockhart
looking to my left i saw too good horses—one bare-backed, and one with a rudely made lady’s saddle on it.
allan’s wife h. rider haggard
about this time my coolie, man sing, who had frequently fallen off his bare-backed pony, arrived.
in the forbidden land arnold henry savage landor
adjective, adverb
(of horse-riding) without a saddle
(slang) (of s-x) without a condom
verb (slang)
(intransitive) to practise unprotected s-x
adj.
1560s, of riding, from bare (adj.) + back (n.).
adjective
: a bareback lay
adverb
without using a condom (1950s+)
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