"goatback" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From goat + back, modelled on horseback. Etymology templates: {{af|en|goat|back}} goat + back Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} goatback (uncountable)
  1. (usually with on) The back of a goat (being ridden, or laden with luggage, as a means of transportation). Tags: uncountable, usually, with-on
    Sense id: en-goatback-en-noun-XVnm5RE6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1917, The Pastoral Review: A Journal and a Record of All Matters Affecting the Pastoral and Agricultural Interests Throughout Australasia, page 125:",
          "text": "ON \"GOATBACK\" IN WESTERN QUEENSLAND. This photo was sent us by Mr. E. Hill, Rosevale, Wyandra, Queensland",
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          "ref": "2004 May 27, Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires, Penguin UK, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] on goatback at the end of Satire V was not meant to recall the equestrian manoeuvres of the lusus Troiae in Book V of the Aeneid. Juvenal may think that Rome has been rotted by long peace, but the glories of battle and conquest hold[…]",
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          "ref": "2008 February 24, Prys Morgan, The Tempus History of Wales, The History Press, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] on goatback because [they are] unable to afford a horse. The cartoons became slightly more friendly as the century advanced, but it is as well to remember that the nursery rhyme about 'Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief' is first recorded in[…]",
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          "ref": "2014 September 21, Edward W. Robertson, The Cycle of Arawn: The Complete Trilogy, Edward W. Robertson:",
          "text": "\"[…] on goatback. Waving butcher knives and rakes.\" \"The rebels don't stand a chance.\"",
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          "ref": "2017 March 1, John Michael Greer, Paths of Wisdom: Cabala in the Golden Dawn Tradition, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 168:",
          "text": "([…] on goatback) will become plain when the additional symbols of Tiphareth are concerned. The cube and the cross of six squares are actually two forms of the same symbol, because a cube unfolded makes a six-square cross.",
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          "ref": "2017 December 29, Alex A. Gurshtein, The Puzzle of the Western Zodiac: Its Wisdom and Evolutionary Leaps: A Painful Ascent to the Truth, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:",
          "text": "[…] on goatback, and especially the ancient Indian one, in which goats appear as means of transport used by gods” (Gamkrelidze and Ivanov, 1984, Pt 2, pp. 586- 587). The ritual mission of the carrier-goat is reflected in the Bible.[…]",
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