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HORSEBACK RIDER

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A man skilled in equitation

Synonyms:

equestrian; horseback rider; horseman

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Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("horseback rider" is a kind of...):

rider (a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "horseback rider"):

picador (the horseman who pricks the bull with a lance early in the bullfight to goad the bull and to make it keep its head low)

bronco buster; broncobuster; buster (a person who breaks horses)

fox hunter (a mounted hunter who follows the hounds in pursuit of a fox)

horsewoman (a woman horseman)

jockey (someone employed to ride horses in horse races)

postilion; postillion (someone who rides the near horse of a pair in order to guide the horses pulling a carriage (especially a carriage without a coachman))

roughrider (a horseman skilled at breaking wild horses to the saddle)

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