a. [see BARE a. 6.]

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  1.  With the back bare.

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1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., III. vii. Some barefooted, some almost bare-backed.

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  2.  esp. Of a horse: Without saddle, unsaddled; also with ride as adv.

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1628.  Le Grys, trans. Barclay’s Argenis, 123. A Horse … not bare-backt … but with those trappings which the kings there did vse.

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1854.  J. Stephens, Centr. Amer., 277. Mounted on a bare-backed horse.

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