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Riding

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act of going on horseback, or in a carriage, etc. See ride, verb Specifically A festival procession.
  • noun. Same as ride, 3.
  • noun. One of the three districts, each anciently under the government of a reeve, into which the county of York, in England, is divided.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • adjective. Employed to travel; traveling.
  • adjective. Used for riding on.
  • adjective. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding
  • adjective. One of the “six clerks” formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery.
  • adjective. A kind of cloak with a hood.
  • adjective. an instructor in horsemanship.
  • adjective. the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales.
  • adjective. a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
  • noun. The act or state of one who rides.
  • noun. A festival procession.
  • noun. Same as Ride, n., 3.
  • noun. A district in charge of an excise officer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. Present participle of ride.
  • noun. A path cut through woodland.
  • noun. A festival procession.
  • noun. Historically, one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties.
  • noun. Electoral district or constituency.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
  • noun. travel by being carried on horseback
  • Word Usage
    "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™."
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