pickaback

adv, verb — 2 senses

adv

on the back or the shoulders.

For, as our modern wits behold, / Mounted a pick-back on the old, / Much further off; much further he / Rais'd on his aged beast, could see1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:
The young men then decided that they would carry him pickaback at turns, and so they did.1949, George R. Stewart, Earth Abides:

verb

Dated Dated form of piggyback (“carry someone on the back or shoulders”).

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