Riding
['raɪdɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) travel by being carried on horseback.
(noun.) the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements.
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Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ride
(n.) 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.
(a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.
(a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
(a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
(n.) The act or state of one who rides.
(n.) A festival procession.
(n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.
(n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
Editor: Lucia
Definition
n. one of the three divisions of the county of York.
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Examples
- I had heard them, alone at the bedside, striking their boots with their riding-whips, and loitering up and down. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was riding a big gray gelding and he wore a khaki beret, a blanket cape like a poncho, and heavy black boots. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The trees and vines stretch across these narrow roadways sometimes and so shut out the sun that you seem to be riding through a tunnel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- If I were at home still, I should take to riding again, that I might go about with you and see all that! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A man riding in hot haste was now dimly descried at the top of a distant hill. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With him, I came on, now riding and now walking, through the rest of yesterday and through last night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The expense of a riding school is so great, that in most places it is a public institution. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Taken as they ought to be, the majority of the lads and lasses of the West Riding are gentlemen and ladies, every inch of them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The post-boys, who had succeeded in cutting the traces, were standing, disfigured with mud and disordered by hard riding, by the horses' heads. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Rotten Row means 'Route de Roi', or the king's way, but now it's more like a riding school than anything else. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We are going to Riding Thorpe Manor, said he, but we have heard nothing of what has passed there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was bow-legged from much horseback riding. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- It is well to bear in mind how modern a thing is riding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But for a long time we did not see any lights, nor did we see the shore but rowed steadily in the dark riding with the waves. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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