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Fine Dictionary

bareback

WordNet
  1. (adj) bareback
    riding without a saddle "a bareback rider"
  2. (adv) bareback
    without a saddle "she prefers to ride her horse bareback"
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. bareback
    Using or performing on a barebacked horse: as, a bareback rider.
  2. bareback
    On a barebacked horse: as, to ride bareback.
Quotations
Robert Frost
What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth?
Robert Frost
Usage in the news

Dallas-based Deuces Night earns PRCA Bareback Horse of the Year. star-telegram.com

Kaycee Feild (cq), a bareback rider from Elk Ridge, Utah, gets ready to ride Wednesday, July 16, 2008 during the Days of 47 Rodeo at Energy Solutions Arena in Salt Lake City. sltrib.com

Rides Peaches and Cream to a 83 score in the bareback competition during the fourth go-round of the Wranglers National Finals Rodeo at the Thomas & Mack Center Sunday, Dec 9, 2012. lasvegassun.com

Wes Stevenson of Lubbock, Texas stays atop Black Cat for a second place finish in the bareback riding competition of the National Finals Rodeo, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012, in Las Vegas. kansascity.com

Culver bareback rider finishes 4th. bendbulletin.com

Riding horses bareback in the rodeo. montereycountyweekly.com

Culver 's Mote takes fourth in bareback riding. bendbulletin.com

Culver's Mote takes fourth in bareback riding. bendbulletin.com

LAS VEGAS—Kaycee Feild won the eighth round of the National Finals Rodeo on Thursday night with an 87-point ride on Kate's Hot Sister to increase his lead in the bareback season standings. montereyherald.com

Bobby Mote takes second in bareback at National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. bendbulletin.com

Wes Stevenson of Lubbock, Texas stays atop Black Cat for a second place finish in the bareback riding competition of the National Finals Rodeo, Wednesday, Dec 12, 2012, in Las Vegas . kansascity.com

Bobby Mote takes second in bareback at National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas . bendbulletin.com

He has cashed checks by finishing among the top six in every round except the seventh, and leads all bareback riders with $80,636 in the NFR. seattlepi.com

He has cashed a check by finishing among the top six in every round except the seventh, and leads all bareback riders with $80,636 in the NFR. montereyherald.com

Now other elite bareback riders in ProRodeo have signed their letter of acknowledgement, voting the Carr Pro Rodeo athlete as the 2012 Bareback Horse of the Year. hpj.com

Usage in literature

This was not much better than, or as good perhaps as, bareback, and the horse was a very hard trotter. "A Canyon Voyage" by Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

He has doubled as clown and bareback when we was short of performers and having a hard season. "The Corner House Girls at School" by Grace Brooks Hill

Go she would, if she had to borrow the pedlar's pony and ride barebacked all the way. "Pixie O'Shaughnessy" by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

I say, though, this 'ere's more comfortable than riding barebacked, holding on to a rope, sir, eh? "Trapped by Malays" by George Manville Fenn

I caught our pony, jumped on bareback, and dashed for their home. "Old Rail Fence Corners" by Various

An old bareback horse, a Texas pony, once even a mule had been Barbara's steeds. "The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires" by Laura Dent Crane

I never rode anything in my life, but I feel I could ride barebacked on Peas-blossom. "Girls of the Forest" by L. T. Meade

She was the lady trapeze artist and bareback rider. "Penguin Persons & Peppermints" by Walter Prichard Eaton

Barebacked, many with the bridle scarcely secure, all without weapons, the men of Waroona raced pell-mell down the road. "The Rider of Waroona" by Firth Scott

The stranger glanced at the barebacked horses, and then at the shimmering heat waves of the desert. "'Me-Smith'" by Caroline Lockhart

Usage in poetry
I see an oak tree, its strong back
Could not be bent an inch though all
Its leaves were stone, or iron even:
A boy, with many a lusty call,
Rides on a bough bareback through Heaven.