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Horseback vs Sowar - What's the difference?

horseback | sowar |

As nouns the difference between horseback and sowar

is that horseback is the back of a horse while sowar is (historical|india) a soldier on horseback, specially one during the.

As an adverb horseback

is on the back of a horse.

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

    sowar

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical, India) A soldier on horseback, specially one during the .
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Frederick Sleigh Roberts, title=Forty-one years in India, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Among the latter was Hope Grant, who had his horse shot under him in a charge, and was saved by the devotion of two men of his own regiment (the 9th Lancers) and a Mahomedan sowar of the 4th Irregular Cavalry. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Charles John Griffiths, title=A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Hills was struck down badly wounded, and was on the point of being despatched by a sowar', when Major Tombs, hearing the noise, rushed out of his tent, and seeing the plight his subaltern was in, fired his revolver at thirty yards and killed the ' sowar . }}