Definition of RIDING. Meaning of RIDING. Synonyms of RIDING

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Definition of RIDING

Riding
Ride Ride, v. i. [imp. Rode (r[=o]d) (Rid [r[i^]d], archaic); p. p. Ridden(Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][eth]a, 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. Usage: 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.
Riding
Riding 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.]
Riding
Riding Rid"ing (r[imac]d"[i^]ng), n. [For thriding, Icel. [thorn]ri[eth]jungr the third part, fr. [thorn]ri[eth]i third, akin to E. third. See Third.] One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding. --Blackstone.
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Riding 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.
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Trithing Tri"thing, n. [See Ist Riding.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] --Blackstone.
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Trithing Tri"thing, n. [See Ist Riding.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called riding. [Written also riding.] --Blackstone.

Meaning of RIDING from wikipedia

- Look up riding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Riding is a homonym of two distinct English words: In equestrianism, riding a horse Riding animal,...
- commonly known as horse riding (Commonwealth English) or horseback riding (American English), includes the disciplines of riding, driving, and vaulting...
- ****umed to apply to whatever new riding most closely corresponds to ridings under the old representation order; riding names from the old representation...
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- In the United States, circuit riding was the practice of a judge, sometimes referred to as a circuit rider, traveling to a judicial district to preside...
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