In lawn-bowls, to roll (the ball) with great force.
To be carried on the back of a horse, ass, mule, camel, elephant, or other animal; specifically, to sit on and manage a horse in motion.
To be borne along in a vehicle, or in or on any kind of conveyance; be carried in or on a wagon, coach, car, balloon, ship, palanquin, bicycle, or the like; hence, in general, to travel or make progress by means of any supporting and moving agency.
To be borne in or on a fluid; float; specifically, to lie at anchor.
To move on or about something.
To be mounted and borne along; hence, to move triumphantly or proudly.
To be carted, as a convicted bawd.
To have free play; have the upper hand; domineer.
To lap or lie over: said especially of a rope when the part on which the strain is brought lies over and jams the other parts.
To serve as a means of travel; be in condition to support a rider or traveler: as, that horse rides well under the saddle.
In surgery, said of the ends of a fractured bone when they overlap each other.
To climb up or rise, as an ill-fitting coat tends to do at the shoulders and the back of the neck.
Synonyms and The effort has been made, in both England and America, to confine ride to progression on horseback, and to use drive for progression in a vehicle, but it has not been altogether successful, being checked by the counter-tendency to use drive only where the person in question holds the reins or where the kind of motion is emphasized.
To sit on and drive; be carried along on and by: used specifically of a horse.