eagleback

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

The back of an eagle (for riding upon).

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"[…] out of the stag's forehead; he gloats over a continent of cheese and a sea of wine; even on eagleback he finds bladders of gin and good roast-beef-fruit; bread-fruit, plum-pudding-fruit […]"
"[To fly] on eagleback, or in the form of an eagle, is a widespread religious fancy. Aristophanes caricatures it in Peace (1 ff.) by sending his hero up on the back of a dungbeetle."

From eagle + back, modelled on horseback.

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