"a-cock-horse" meaning in English

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          "text": "We have yet a thousand medailes and monuments, namely, of that honest woman Faustina, wherein that Eagle is represented, carrying a cock-horse a dead goat up towards heaven those Deified soules.",
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        "Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback."
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        "(archaic) Astride; mounted on something as though on horseback."
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