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Cavalry vs Horseback - What's the difference?

cavalry | horseback |

As nouns the difference between cavalry and horseback

is that cavalry is (military|uncountable) the military arm of service that fights while riding horses while horseback is the back of a horse.

As an adverb horseback is

on the back of a horse.

cavalry

English

(wikipedia cavalry)

Noun

(cavalries)
  • (military, uncountable) The military arm of service that fights while riding horses.
  • (military, countable) An individual unit of the cavalry arm of service.
  • (military, countable) The branch of the military transported by fast light vehicles, also known as mechanized cavalry.

    • Derived terms

    * heavy cavalry * light cavalry * mechanized cavalry

    References

    * Delamarre, X. & Lambert, P. -Y. (2003). Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise : Une approche linguistique du vieux-celtique continental (2nd ed.). Paris: Errance. ISBN 978 2 87772 369 5, ISBN 2 87772 237 6

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    horseback

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The back of a horse.
  • A ridge of sand, gravel, and boulders.

    • Derived terms

    * angels on horseback * devils on horseback

    Synonyms

    * (ridge) esker

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the back of a horse.
  • * He rode horseback to town.

    • Synonyms

    * ahorse, ahorseback, on horseback