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ˈriding-rod
[riding vbl. n.]
A rod or switch used in riding.
1555Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 376 Paid for ij ryding⁓roddes of bone for my Ladie, and other thinges, xxijd. 1573L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 30 A little round Circle which Popilius made with his riding Rod. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. v. 59 A fish..[with] a long tayle like a ryding rodde. 1658tr. Bergerac's Sat. Charact. xxxiii. 116 May we not take his riding-rod for death's standard. 1820Scott Abbot xix, She holds up her riding-rod as if she would lay it about some of their ears. |