behorsed

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ horse +‎ -ed. Compare Old English behorsian.

Adjective

behorsed (comparative more behorsed, superlative most behorsed)

1. Provided with or mounted upon a horse.
   • 1895, James Henry Cousins, Ben Madighan and Other Poems, page 41:

     Bespeared, behorsed, becannoned o'er […]

   • 1925, William George Langworthy Taylor, The Saddle Horse, page 245:

     At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.

   • 1992, British Journal of Photography:

     Unless the Mounties are now recruiting pre-pubescent, elfin-faced youths, we have to say that the behorsed custodian was a Royal Canadian Mounted Policewoman.

   • 1999, Between the Living and the Dead:

     Such evidence could, for example, be injuries brought back from the other side: wounds on the mouths of those who had been “behorsed” and “saddled” were traces of the bit; blue marks, blueness in the face, tiredness, dizziness, or sweat were signs of having been “carried.”