cockhorse

How to use cockhorse in a sentence

• Mr. Flamsteed has come in, and says he left Sir Isaac riding cockhorse upon the nebula, and poring over it as if it were a book.

  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) | Augustus De Morgan

• That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority.

  Beauchamp's Career, Complete | George Meredith

• He asked if I should like to ride a-cockhorse there with him.

  Love and Life | Charlotte M. Yonge