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jockeyship|ˈdʒɒkɪʃɪp|
[See -ship.]
1. a. The art of a jockey; skill in horse-racing. (Cf. horsemanship.) b. The practice of jockeying; trickery, artifice, adroit management for unfair advantage.
a1763Shenstone Ess. Envy Wks. 1764 II. 111 To vie in jockey-ship or cunning at a bett. 1784Cowper Task ii. 276 We justly boast At least superior jockeyship, and claim The honours of the turf as all our own. 1787Bentham Def. Usury ix. 87 Jockey-ship, a term of reproach..frequently applied to the arts of those who sell horses. 1846J. W. Croker in C. Papers 22 Aug. (1884), Newmarket does not afford more..instances of jockeyship, than could be found in the secret history of episcopal promotion. 1894Daily News 16 Apr. 3/7 This defeat was probably due to the inferior jockeyship of his rider.
2. As a mock title for a jockey.
1781Cowper Conversat. 420 If neither horse nor groom affect the squire, Where can at last his jockeyship retire?
3. Jockeys collectively.
c1820Chalmers Serm., The full assembled jockeyship of half a province muster together. |