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Answer for the clue "On horseback ", 7 letters:
mounted

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Word definitions for mounted in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "on horseback," past participle adjective from mount (v.). From 1854 as "set up for display."

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
affixed \affixed\ adj. 1. attached physically. Opposite of unaffixed . Note: Various more specific adjectives meaning affixed are: appendant , {basifixed , fastened, secured , glued, pasted, stuck to(predicate) , {pegged-down , {pinned, stapled , {taped ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN police ▪ Eventually, the senior officer ordered in the mounted police . ▪ The Bethnal Green police reported that truncheons were drawn and mounted police used against militant anti-fascists. ▪ At least 16 students ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. assembled for use; especially by being attached to a support decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in combination; "the trim brass-mounted carbine of the ranger"- F.V.W.Mason

Usage examples of mounted.

I trust it will not be forgotten, that twenty-five pieces of heavy ordnance have been dragged to the different batteries, mounted, and, all but three, fought by seamen, except one artilleryman to point the guns.

Reprints and anthology appearances of his stories have mounted into the hundreds and the presentations of his stories on radio and television is rapidly approaching the 100 mark.

Fort Bannerman was a small metropolis, for besides the Bay store it had a Mounted Police post, a hospital run by the Grey Nuns, and an Indian school in charge of the Oblate Brothers.

The boy was trembling with excitement, his bright green eyes sparkling as he drank in the splendid vision of the mounted warriors, their gleaming weapons and splendid accouterments, the restless thaptors pawing at the dust, arching their proud necks restlessly, the brilliant bannerol snapping in a brisk breeze.

The youngest was no older than Lan, a dim-looking, shaggy-haired youth mounted bareback on a pony that was just as shaggy, whose main article of clothing was a rough-sewn coat of sheepskin and hat and boots to match.

Assisted by her father Shanna mounted the carriage at last, and the barouche moved briskly away from the dock.

With that Ameronis threw back the coverlet and strode out onto the bartizan and mounted a flight of steps to the battlements.

Stout-hearted John de Vienne, their commander, seeing that all was at an end, mounted the walls with a flag of truce, and made signs that he wished to speak with some person of the besieging host.

All were well mounted, even though the horses they bestrode were not war-trained, and Djo-Sahl led a fifth animala mule, on which were packed their food and waterbags, plus a small tent and cooking pot.

Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital.

Cavaliers, all well mounted and well armed, and accompanied by the Duke of Buckingham, the Earl of Derby, the Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Wilmot, Colonels Roscarrock, Lane, Blague, and Charles Giffard, and of course attended by Careless, the king started on his flight.

Then she finished her chores and mounted Bounder for the trip to the hut.

Two shots warned him of the approach of the foe, and forgetting that his cap, sabre and pistols, lay on the long bench on the piazza, Horry mounted his horse, left the enclosure, and rushed into the melee.

He peered through the Litton M921 3-power starlight scope mounted on the weapon.

They had found an ox-cart, and mounted the mantlet on the wheels, great solid disks of oak.