Behorsed

Bespeared, behorsed, becannoned o'er […]

At mountain resorts it happens not infrequently that one beholds such a pair driving before them a numerous progeny all properly behorsed.

Unless the Mounties are now recruiting pre-pubescent, elfin-faced youths, we have to say that the behorsed custodian was a Royal Canadian Mounted Policewoman.

Such evidence could, for example, be injuries brought back from the other side: wounds on the mouths of those who had been “behorsed” and “saddled” were traces of the bit; blue marks, blueness in the face, tiredness, dizziness, or sweat were signs of having been “carried.”