An archaic or dialectal variant of 'piggyback,' meaning to ride on someone's back or shoulders.
Regional variant spelling of apickaback, with the same obscure origins relating to carrying someone on one's back. Spelling variations were common in English before standardization.
Language variation fascinates us—the same simple act of carrying a child could be called apickback in one village and piggyback in another, showing how English wasn't uniform even in recent centuries!
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