riding : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: riding	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
riding n the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements Synonym(s): riding, horseback riding, equitation travel by being carried on horseback Synonym(s): riding, horseback riding
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. {Rode} (r[omac]d) ({Rid} [r[icr]d], archaic); p. p. {Ridden}({Rid}, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. {Riding}.] [AS. r[c6]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[c6]tan, Icel. r[c6][edh]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 [bd]to travel on horseback[b8] as the leading sense of ride; though he adds [bd]to travel in a vehicle[b8] 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. [bd]Will you ride over or drive?[b8] said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning. --W. Black.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Riding \Rid"ing\ (r[imac]d"[icr]ng), n. [For thriding, Icel. [thorn]ri[edh]jungr the third part, fr. [thorn]ri[edh]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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Riding \Rid"ing\, a. 1. Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. [bd]One riding apparitor.[b8] --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 [bd]six clerks[b8] 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Trithing \Tri"thing\, n. [See Ist {Riding}.] One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called {riding}. [Written also {riding}.] --Blackstone.