riddingn.

Brit.

/ˈrɪdɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈrɪdɪŋ/

Forms: Old English hryding, early Middle English ruding, Middle English reddyng (northern), Middle English riddeing, Middle English riddynge, Middle English ridyng, Middle English rudyng, Middle English rydynge, Middle English rydyngge, Middle English–1500s riddyng, Middle English–1500s ryddyng, Middle English–1500s rydyng, Middle English– ridding, 1600s riddinge, 1600s ryding; English regional 1800s– rhyddin (Yorkshire), 1800s– riddin' (northern), 1800s– riding (chiefly northern and midlands), 1800s– ruddin (northern), 1800s– rudding (northern), 1900s– redding (Worcestershire); Scottish pre-1700 riddin, pre-1700 riding, pre-1700 ridyne, pre-1700 ridyng, pre-1700 ryddin, pre-1700 rydding, pre-1700 rydeing, pre-1700 rydene, pre-1700 ryding, pre-1700 rydyng, pre-1700 ryiding, pre-1700 1700s– ridding, 1800s ridden.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rid v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < rid v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin ridinga cleared land (c1176, 1220 in British sources), rudinga (from 12th cent. in British sources; < Middle English). Compare redding n.³, reding n., and (with sense 4) rid n.¹ 2.The Old English form hryding probably shows a reverse spelling (see R n.). The forms reddyng and redding in quots. 1410, 1903 at sense 1 show lowering of the stem vowel, although compare also redd v.², redd n.¹, and redding n.³ Also attested early in place names (in sense 1), as Langeruding (field name), Gloucestershire (c1190), Reding, Kent (1240; now Reading Street), Armethiriding, Lancashire (1246; now Armetridding), Riddinges, Derbyshire (1258; now Riddings), Woderedinge, Hertfordshire (a1272; now Woodridings), etc., and in surnames derived from them, as Grifin del Ruding (1246), Ric. atte Rudinge (1275), William atte Rydyng (1339), etc.

1. In singular and plural. A cleared piece of ground; a clearing. Cf. assart n. 1. English regional (northern and midlands) or historical in later use.Frequently in place names.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing

sladec893

riddingOE

wood lay?c1225

wood lind?c1225

wood rise?c1225

laund1340

cockshoot1353

gladea1535

cock-glade1574

nether vert1598

cock-roada1613

opening1678

opening1743

patana1854

OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 139 Subsiciua, hryding.

lOE Bounds in T. Hearne Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiæ Wigorniensis (1723) II. 430 Onlong gerdes to waringes rudinge ðonene onlon gerdes to ðe imbe ac.

1366 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 81 (MED) [A messuage, 8½ acres of land, and two] riddeings.

1410 in W. Brown Yorks. Deeds (1922) 57 (MED) [A toft with three] reddyngs [in] lez Sleghtes.

1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 140 I will that Barnard Dowthwhet haue the newe mower, with my parte in the fer ryddynges.

1651 MS. Indenture, Yorks. 9 selions lying together in one field called the Rydings.

1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 94 (note) It is plain that a ridding is pure English for assartum.

1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Ridding... More frequently met with in local names, or in documents, than in modern expression.

1903 W. C. Boulter in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 99/2 [Worcestershire] Our boy chased the fox through the redding.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. (at cited word) They fun a fox i' t'fower yacker ridding.

1962 J. Goody Death, Prop. & Ancestors xv. 306 In many villages in medieval England, new land acquired by clearing (assarts or riddings), or by any other method, did not have to be transmitted according to the usual rules of inheritance.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. Riddin', The, a glade or clearing. An area in a copse or wood which has been rid of trees.

a. The action of clearing or removing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land

ridding1347

grubbingc1440

stubbing1445

stockingc1460

assart1534

clotting1601

extirpation1607

shrubbing1611

moling1617

averruncation1656

twitching1799

underbrushing1838

clearance1851

screefing1919

reslashing1934

underscrubbing1935

swidden1955

the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > clearing (a place) of people or things

ridding1347

redd1488

riddance1528

scouring1606

clearage1818

clearance1851

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun]

purchasec1325

ridding1347

riflinga1350

despoilingc1374

preya1375

spoilingc1380

pillagea1393

shavaldrya1400

destrition14..

pillingc1400

pillery1433

spulyieingc1440

rapinea1450

spoliationc1460

depopulation1462

spulyie1464

depredation1483

despoil1483

predationa1500

pilferya1513

pollinga1513

spoil1532

pilling and pollinga1535

pilfering1548

expilation1563

rapt1584

escheat1587

fleecing1593

spoilage1597

depilation1611

manubiary1616

pillaging1629

plundering1632

exspoliation1634

peeling1641

despoliation1658

plunder1661

plunderage1700

spoliage1806

despoilment1822

1347–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 545 (MED) In exp. factis in Ryddyng stagni de Fery et Feryclyff, 5 s.

1425 in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1879) 24 31 (MED) Pro rudyng ante eandem crucem et ablacione lapidum.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2244 Ȝoure corage to bend, And in ridding of oure riche toun ȝour reuth for to call.

c1490 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 507 For the stubbyng and ryddyng all a long the pale off the long pond.

1501 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 125 For rydyng of gotters of y^e chyrch and y^e gargells.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Ablaqueatio, the riddyng or clensinge of trees in maner aboue mencioned.

1630 Brasenose Coll. Munim. (MS) (Bundle Q 3. 104) Charges for the Riddinge of the Lanne betwixt Brasnnose and Excestre Colledge Garden.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 16 Aug. (1972) VII. 249 I fell to the ridding away of a great deal of business.

1714 W. Lowth Comm. Isaiah xvii. 142 The former Verse was an Illustration of Israel's Destruction from the ridding of Fields in the Corn Harvest.

1820 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 17 Aug. (1941) II. 154 The fitting out Mr. R. with a knapsack—the ridding-away three-fourths of his luggage to be sent to Geneva.

c1850 J. Gemmel in Mem. R. Craig (1862) 250 A thorough ridding of the marches between what is changeable and what is unchangeable.

1897 Longman's Mag. Mar. 441 The marble seam..is easily obtained by ‘open ridding’.

1924 P. G. Thomas Eng. Lit. before Chaucer viii. 34 For the ridding of the disease, flattery, threats, or even sympathetic representation is relied upon.

1959 Pop. Mech. Feb. 179/2 Described as being 20 percent less expensive than conventional spraying in the ridding of mites.

2002 E. M. DuPuis Nature's Perfect Food i. 23 Antebellum evangelicals believe that Christ's return was dependent on the ridding of evil from earth.

†b. The action of separating combatants or settling a dispute. Also with off. Frequently attributive, in ridding stroke (cf. redding stroke n. at redding n.³ Compounds). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > parting of combatants

ridding1500

redding1529

1500 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 111 The seid Thomas..Came..onely for the Riddyng of the seid assaute & fray.

1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 732 The ridding and determining of civill and criminall causes belongeth to the Senate of Millan.

1642 T. Hope Diary 174 Word cam off the killing of worthie Sandfurd..in ridding off his sonnes in a tumult.

1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 159 He who meddles with Quarrels, gets the ridding Stroke.

1887 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 148/1 After receiving this ridding stroke, which is inevitably the recompense of the third party, Edmund drew back a little.

c. Deliverance, release, setting free. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > consisting in getting rid of something

riddance1524

ridding1656

1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 327 For..the ridding of our selves and others from troubles.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Districation A ridding out of trouble.

1888 A. Menzies tr. O. Pfleiderer Philos. Relig. IV. ii. vi. 96 His redeeming activity is at first directed principally to the ridding of the earth from all monsters..and untutored rudeness.

1913 Survey 2 Aug. 572/2 The ridding of American society from industrial warfare.

2006 E. Larsen Nation Gone Blind iii. 226 The Declaration itself is dedicated to the ridding of the colonies from the oppression of the crown.

†3. In plural. Refuse or rubbish acquired from clearing out. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun]

wrakea1350

outcastingc1350

rammel1370

rubble1376

mullockc1390

refusec1390

filtha1398

outcasta1398

chaff?a1400

rubbishc1400

wastec1430

drossc1440

raff?1440

rascal1440

murgeonc1450

wrack1472

gear1489

garblec1503

scowl1538

raffle1543

baggage1549

garbage1549

peltry1550

gubbins?1553

lastage1553

scruff1559

retraict1575

ross1577

riddings1584

ket1586

scouring1588

pelf1589

offal1598

rummage1598

dog's meat1606

retriment1615

spitling1620

recrement1622

mundungus1637

sordes1640

muskings1649

rejectament1654

offscouring1655

brat1656

relicts1687

offage1727

litter1730

rejectamenta1795

outwale1825

detritus1834

junk1836

wastements1843

croke1847–78

sculch1847

debris1851

rumble1854

flotsam1861

jetsam1861

pelt1880

offcasting1893

rubbishry1894

littering1897

muckings1898

wastage1898

dreck1905

bruck1929

crap1934

garbo1953

clobber1965

dooky1965

grot1971

tippings-

1584 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1939) I. 198 Bessie..to pay..fourscoir cowpfulls of mwk..of the riddingis of thair barne.

1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. xi. 153 In a tumbrell which caried away the riddings of gardens.

4. English regional (north-eastern). The waste material from a quarry; (also) = rid n.¹ 2. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at Rid) records this sense as still in use in Durham in 1903.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > produced in boring, mining, or dredging

redd1527

rede1554

fay1747

ridding1827

spoil1838

halvans1849

bore-meal1870

sludge1871

slickens1882

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > topsoil

swarth1649

uncallow1787

callow1823

ridding1827

encallow1836

baring1871

kelly1884

1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 94 (note) The soil or diluvial matter on the tops of quarries is very commonly called the ridding, or rid-work.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Riddins, Ridding-stone, loose stones, the waste heaps from quarries, also the baring or loose material above the stone head.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	ridding
释义	riddingn. Brit. /ˈrɪdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈrɪdɪŋ/ Forms: Old English hryding, early Middle English ruding, Middle English reddyng (northern), Middle English riddeing, Middle English riddynge, Middle English ridyng, Middle English rudyng, Middle English rydynge, Middle English rydyngge, Middle English–1500s riddyng, Middle English–1500s ryddyng, Middle English–1500s rydyng, Middle English– ridding, 1600s riddinge, 1600s ryding; English regional 1800s– rhyddin (Yorkshire), 1800s– riddin' (northern), 1800s– riding (chiefly northern and midlands), 1800s– ruddin (northern), 1800s– rudding (northern), 1900s– redding (Worcestershire); Scottish pre-1700 riddin, pre-1700 riding, pre-1700 ridyne, pre-1700 ridyng, pre-1700 ryddin, pre-1700 rydding, pre-1700 rydeing, pre-1700 rydene, pre-1700 ryding, pre-1700 rydyng, pre-1700 ryiding, pre-1700 1700s– ridding, 1800s ridden. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rid v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < rid v. (although this is first attested later) + -ing suffix¹. Compare post-classical Latin ridinga cleared land (c1176, 1220 in British sources), rudinga (from 12th cent. in British sources; < Middle English). Compare redding n.³, reding n., and (with sense 4) rid n.¹ 2.The Old English form hryding probably shows a reverse spelling (see R n.). The forms reddyng and redding in quots. 1410, 1903 at sense 1 show lowering of the stem vowel, although compare also redd v.², redd n.¹, and redding n.³ Also attested early in place names (in sense 1), as Langeruding (field name), Gloucestershire (c1190), Reding, Kent (1240; now Reading Street), Armethiriding, Lancashire (1246; now Armetridding), Riddinges, Derbyshire (1258; now Riddings), Woderedinge, Hertfordshire (a1272; now Woodridings), etc., and in surnames derived from them, as Grifin del Ruding (1246), Ric. atte Rudinge (1275), William atte Rydyng (1339), etc. 1. In singular and plural. A cleared piece of ground; a clearing. Cf. assart n. 1. English regional (northern and midlands) or historical in later use.Frequently in place names. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > clearing sladec893 riddingOE wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 laund1340 cockshoot1353 gladea1535 cock-glade1574 nether vert1598 cock-roada1613 opening1678 opening1743 patana1854 OE Antwerp Gloss. (1955) 139 Subsiciua, hryding. lOE Bounds in T. Hearne Hemingi Chartularium Ecclesiæ Wigorniensis (1723) II. 430 Onlong gerdes to waringes rudinge ðonene onlon gerdes to ðe imbe ac. 1366 in M. T. Löfvenberg Contrib. Middle Eng. Lexicogr. & Etymol. (1946) 81 (MED) [A messuage, 8½ acres of land, and two] riddeings. 1410 in W. Brown Yorks. Deeds (1922) 57 (MED) [A toft with three] reddyngs [in] lez Sleghtes. 1586 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 140 I will that Barnard Dowthwhet haue the newe mower, with my parte in the fer ryddynges. 1651 MS. Indenture, Yorks. 9 selions lying together in one field called the Rydings. 1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 94 (note) It is plain that a ridding is pure English for assartum. 1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Ridding... More frequently met with in local names, or in documents, than in modern expression. 1903 W. C. Boulter in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1904) V. 99/2 [Worcestershire] Our boy chased the fox through the redding. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. (at cited word) They fun a fox i' t'fower yacker ridding. 1962 J. Goody Death, Prop. & Ancestors xv. 306 In many villages in medieval England, new land acquired by clearing (assarts or riddings), or by any other method, did not have to be transmitted according to the usual rules of inheritance. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. Riddin', The, a glade or clearing. An area in a copse or wood which has been rid of trees. 2. a. The action of clearing or removing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land ridding1347 grubbingc1440 stubbing1445 stockingc1460 assart1534 clotting1601 extirpation1607 shrubbing1611 moling1617 averruncation1656 twitching1799 underbrushing1838 clearance1851 screefing1919 reslashing1934 underscrubbing1935 swidden1955 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [noun] > clearing (a place) of people or things ridding1347 redd1488 riddance1528 scouring1606 clearage1818 clearance1851 the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [noun] purchasec1325 ridding1347 riflinga1350 despoilingc1374 preya1375 spoilingc1380 pillagea1393 shavaldrya1400 destrition14.. pillingc1400 pillery1433 spulyieingc1440 rapinea1450 spoliationc1460 depopulation1462 spulyie1464 depredation1483 despoil1483 predationa1500 pilferya1513 pollinga1513 spoil1532 pilling and pollinga1535 pilfering1548 expilation1563 rapt1584 escheat1587 fleecing1593 spoilage1597 depilation1611 manubiary1616 pillaging1629 plundering1632 exspoliation1634 peeling1641 despoliation1658 plunder1661 plunderage1700 spoliage1806 despoilment1822 1347–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 545 (MED) In exp. factis in Ryddyng stagni de Fery et Feryclyff, 5 s. 1425 in Proc. Somerset Archaeol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. (1879) 24 31 (MED) Pro rudyng ante eandem crucem et ablacione lapidum. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 2244 Ȝoure corage to bend, And in ridding of oure riche toun ȝour reuth for to call. c1490 in J. P. Collier Househ. Bks. John Duke of Norfolk & Thomas Earl of Surrey (1844) 507 For the stubbyng and ryddyng all a long the pale off the long pond. 1501 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 125 For rydyng of gotters of y^e chyrch and y^e gargells. 1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Ablaqueatio, the riddyng or clensinge of trees in maner aboue mencioned. 1630 Brasenose Coll. Munim. (MS) (Bundle Q 3. 104) Charges for the Riddinge of the Lanne betwixt Brasnnose and Excestre Colledge Garden. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 16 Aug. (1972) VII. 249 I fell to the ridding away of a great deal of business. 1714 W. Lowth Comm. Isaiah xvii. 142 The former Verse was an Illustration of Israel's Destruction from the ridding of Fields in the Corn Harvest. 1820 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 17 Aug. (1941) II. 154 The fitting out Mr. R. with a knapsack—the ridding-away three-fourths of his luggage to be sent to Geneva. c1850 J. Gemmel in Mem. R. Craig (1862) 250 A thorough ridding of the marches between what is changeable and what is unchangeable. 1897 Longman's Mag. Mar. 441 The marble seam..is easily obtained by ‘open ridding’. 1924 P. G. Thomas Eng. Lit. before Chaucer viii. 34 For the ridding of the disease, flattery, threats, or even sympathetic representation is relied upon. 1959 Pop. Mech. Feb. 179/2 Described as being 20 percent less expensive than conventional spraying in the ridding of mites. 2002 E. M. DuPuis Nature's Perfect Food i. 23 Antebellum evangelicals believe that Christ's return was dependent on the ridding of evil from earth. †b. The action of separating combatants or settling a dispute. Also with off. Frequently attributive, in ridding stroke (cf. redding stroke n. at redding n.³ Compounds). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > parting of combatants ridding1500 redding1529 1500 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1903) I. 111 The seid Thomas..Came..onely for the Riddyng of the seid assaute & fray. 1635 W. Saltonstall tr. G. Mercator Historia Mundi 732 The ridding and determining of civill and criminall causes belongeth to the Senate of Millan. 1642 T. Hope Diary 174 Word cam off the killing of worthie Sandfurd..in ridding off his sonnes in a tumult. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 159 He who meddles with Quarrels, gets the ridding Stroke. 1887 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 148/1 After receiving this ridding stroke, which is inevitably the recompense of the third party, Edmund drew back a little. c. Deliverance, release, setting free. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > rescue or deliverance > [noun] > consisting in getting rid of something riddance1524 ridding1656 1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 327 For..the ridding of our selves and others from troubles. 1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words at Districation A ridding out of trouble. 1888 A. Menzies tr. O. Pfleiderer Philos. Relig. IV. ii. vi. 96 His redeeming activity is at first directed principally to the ridding of the earth from all monsters..and untutored rudeness. 1913 Survey 2 Aug. 572/2 The ridding of American society from industrial warfare. 2006 E. Larsen Nation Gone Blind iii. 226 The Declaration itself is dedicated to the ridding of the colonies from the oppression of the crown. †3. In plural. Refuse or rubbish acquired from clearing out. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- 1584 Kirkcudbright Town Council Rec. (1939) I. 198 Bessie..to pay..fourscoir cowpfulls of mwk..of the riddingis of thair barne. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales xi. xi. 153 In a tumbrell which caried away the riddings of gardens. 4. English regional (north-eastern). The waste material from a quarry; (also) = rid n.¹ 2. Eng. Dial. Dict. (at Rid) records this sense as still in use in Durham in 1903. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] > produced in boring, mining, or dredging redd1527 rede1554 fay1747 ridding1827 spoil1838 halvans1849 bore-meal1870 sludge1871 slickens1882 the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > [noun] > topsoil swarth1649 uncallow1787 callow1823 ridding1827 encallow1836 baring1871 kelly1884 1827 J. Hodgson Hist. Northumberland: Pt. II I. 94 (note) The soil or diluvial matter on the tops of quarries is very commonly called the ridding, or rid-work. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Riddins, Ridding-stone, loose stones, the waste heaps from quarries, also the baring or loose material above the stone head. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE
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