Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of riding.
- n. Horseback riding.
- n. An administrative division or electoral division in Canada.
- n. Any one of three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire, England.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of going on horseback, or in a carriage, etc. See ride, verb Specifically A festival procession.
- n. Same as ride, 3.
- n. One of the three districts, each anciently under the government of a reeve, into which the county of York, in England, is divided. These are called the North, East, and West Ridings. The same system of division exists also in Lincolnshire. Pennsylvania also, in the earliest portion of its colonial history, was divided into ridings.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of ride.
- n. A path cut through woodland.
- n. obsolete A festival procession.
- n. Historically, one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties.
- n. Canada Electoral district or constituency.
GNU Webster's 1913
- 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 , theEast , and theWest ,Riding . - adj. Employed to travel; traveling.
- adj. Used for riding on.
- adj. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding
- n. The act or state of one who rides.
- n. obsolete A festival procession.
- n. Same as Ride, n., 3.
- n. engraving A district in charge of an excise officer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- n. travel by being carried on horseback
Etymologies
- From Middle English, from Old English *þriðing, from Old Norse þriðjungr ("third part") (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, alteration of trithing, from Old English *thrithing, from Old Norse thridhjungr, third part, from thridhi, third; see trei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The immediate grounds for the inference are not facts about horses and riding, but the linguistic or structural parallelism between the statements ˜white horses are horses™ and ˜riding white horses is riding horses™.”
“And the little craft no longer rocked as before; -- they felt another and a larger motion, -- long slow ascents and descents enduring for minutes at a time; -- they were riding the great swells, -- _riding the horizon!”
“This riding is the only competitive NDP-Conservative race in the province.”
“The NDP, on the other hand, has never come close to winning in Outremont, but the riding is the NDP's number one target in Quebec and the party has significantly increased its share of the vote in Outremont in recent years.”
“Actually, I'm not sure what you call riding the subway, but I do know that "training" is what roadies call cycling.”
“That this riding is a facetious exaggeration of the African practice I find was guessed by Mr. Keightley.”
“So that's what you call riding a media wave, folks.”
“There was an overseer on each farm and what they called a riding boss over Nash and Edgecombe.”
“They'll have a tally for the results of each of the 308 ridings (a "riding" is the parliamentary equivalent of a congressional district).”
“From the Globe and Mail (note: a "riding" is the parliamentary equivalent to a congressional district): Ottawa — Christian activists have secured Conservative nominations in clusters of ridings from Vancouver to Halifax -- a political penetration that has occurred even as the party tries to distance itself from hard-line social conservatism.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘riding’.
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The things they carried (List 2)
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fbharjo originally (t)riding - an administrative district in Yorkshire Jul 5, 2007