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riding

verb
/ˈɹaɪ.dɪŋ/

Etymology

PIE word *tréyes From trithing (initial /t/ absorbed into preceding north, south, east, west, inner ⟨th⟩ already sometimes /d/ in Middle English), from Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriþing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”), from Proto-Germanic *þridjô (“third”) (English third). Equivalent to third + -ing; compare with farthing (“fourth part”). Cognate with English trithing. The folk etymology that connects the term to the area a horse-rider could cover in a single day is incorrect, but may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation.

  1. derived from *þridjô✻
  2. derived from þriðjungr
  3. inherited from *þriþing✻
  4. inherited from trithing

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of ride

  2. A path cut through woodland.

  3. The act of one who rides

    The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.

    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation.

      • The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
      • A maximum of 80 m.p.h. was quickly reached on the 1 in 264 down through Three Bridges and at this pace the riding was exemplary.

    2. A festival procession.

      • It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]

    3. Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties…

      Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.

    4. Electoral district or constituency.

      • Ontario shall be divided into the Counties, Ridings of Counties, Cities, Parts of Cities, and Towns enumerated in the First Schedule to this Act[…]

    5. A surname.

The neighborhood

Derived

backriding, bow riding, bull riding, common riding, dragonriding, English riding, hedge riding, horseriding, lowriding, manriding, mud riding, night-riding, nonriding, riding academy, riding-bitts, riding boot, riding coat, ridingcoat, riding committee, riding crop, riding dress, riding glove, riding habit, riding hall, riding halter, riding-hood, riding hood, riding horse, riding in tandem, riding interest, riding lawnmower, riding light, riding mower, riding officer, riding rhyme, riding-robe, riding robe, riding-rod, riding sail, riding school · +18 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at riding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at riding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at riding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA