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RIDING
riding, horseback riding
(noun) travel by being carried on horseback
riding, horseback riding, equitation
(noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Proper noun
Riding (plural Ridings)
A surname.
Statistics
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Riding is the 21470th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1217 individuals. Riding is most common among White (90.22%) individuals.
Anagrams
• Ingrid, grid-in
Etymology 1
Verb
riding
present participle of ride
Noun
riding (countable and uncountable, plural ridings)
A path cut through woodland.
The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
(obsolete) A festival procession.
Etymology 2
Noun
riding (plural ridings)
(historical) Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
(Canada) Electoral district or constituency.
Anagrams
• Ingrid, grid-in
Source: Wiktionary
Rid"ing, n. Etym: [For thriding, Icel. pr the third part, fr. pri third, akin to E. third. See Third.]
Definition: One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. Blackstone.
Rid"ing, a.
1. Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.
2. Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
3. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day. Riding clerk. (a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.] (b) One of the "six clerks" formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery.
– Riding hood. (a) A hood formerly worn by women when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood.
– Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship.
– Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest.
– Riding school, a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
Rid"ing, n.
1. The act or state of one who rides.
2. A festival procession. [Obs.] When there any riding was in Cheap. Chaucer.
3. Same as Ride, n., 3. Sir P. Sidney.
4. A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]
RIDE
Ride, v. i. [imp. Rode (rod) (Rid [rîd], archaic); p. p. Ridden ( (Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding (.] Etym: [AS. ridan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. ritan, Icel. riedha, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. Road.]
1. To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse. To-morrow, when ye riden by the way. Chaucer. Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him. Swift.
2. To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below. The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants. Macaulay.
3. To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie. Men once walked where ships at anchor ride. Dryden.
4. To be supported in motion; to rest. Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides. Shak. On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy! Shak.
5. To manage a horse, as an equestrian. He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease. Dryden.
6. To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables.
– To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently.
– To ride out. (a) To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.] Chaucer. (b) To ride in the open air. [Colloq.] -- To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Syn.
– Drive.
– Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in England, drive is the word applied in most cases to progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park, etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by giving "to travel on horseback" as the leading sense of ride; though he adds "to travel in a vehicle" as a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an omnibus. "Will you ride over or drive" said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. W. Black.
Ride, v. t.
1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. Milton.
2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.
3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side. Sir W. Scott.
4. (Surg.)
Definition: To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk.
– To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. Fielding.
– To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.
– To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale. to ride the lightning, (Colloq.) to be executed by electrocution in an electric chair.
Ride, n.
1. The act of riding; an excursion on horseback or in a vehicle.
2. A saddle horse. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.
3. A road or avenue cut in a wood, or through grounds, to be used as a place for riding; a riding.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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