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Brit. /rʌɪd/, U.S. /raɪd/
Forms: late Middle English 1700s– ride, 1500s ryde.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ride v.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < ride v. (compare ride v. 21). Compare post-classical Latin rida (1306, 1478 in British sources).
Chiefly English regional (south-eastern).
The part of a hinge for a door, gate, etc., which fits on to the hook.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hinge > parts of hinge > strap
ride1412
rider1734
strap1831
1412–13 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1876) 10 248 (MED) Item, in Ridis et boltys pro dicto ostio.
1522 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) It' for a paier of rydes and a hooke one for Syster Swan' and the other for Brother leche.
1591–2 in Archaeologia Cantiana (1886) 16 186 For makinge a newe doore..the rydes, nayles and Woork.
1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 245 10 pair of Hooks and Rides for Doors.
1838 W. Holloway Gen. Dict. Provincialisms Rides, the iron hinges fixed on a gate by means of which the gate is hung on the hooks in the post.
1853 Ann. Reg. 1852 ii. Chron. 18/1 By this sudden movement the upper ‘ride’, that is, the hinge by which the gate is suspended from its hook, snapped asunder.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. 128 Ride, an iron hinge on which a gate is hung, and by which it swings and rides.
1903 P. N. Hasluck Handyman's Bk. 371/2 The majority of field gates are hung with ordinary hooks and rides.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

riden.2

Brit. /rʌɪd/, U.S. /raɪd/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: ride v.
Etymology: < ride v.There is no connection with early Middle English ride act of riding (one isolated attestation), which has a short stem vowel (compare the rhyme in the following):a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3950 Vp-on hise asse his sadel he dede, To madian lond wente he his ride.Early Middle English ride probably represents the reflex (with aphesis) of Old English gerid act of riding, also ‘path for riding on’, a prefixed noun (see y- prefix) cognate with Middle Low German rit , German Ritt (late 15th cent.), both in sense ‘act of riding’ < an ablaut variant (zero grade) of the Germanic base of ride v. (compare bit n.1, writ n., etc.). Compare ( < German) Dutch rit, †rid act or instance of riding (first half of the 17th cent.; a1521 in the obsolete sense ‘equestrian warfare’), Danish ridt act or instance of riding (a1719).
1. Each of the districts into which an area is divided for the purposes of excise. Now historical.A ride was typically covered by an exciseman on horseback, as contrasted with a footwalk: see footwalk n. 2.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > one of districts into which coast is divided
ride1885
1701 Instr. for Gauger of Excise (new ed.) 11 In Surveying your Ride, you write B. for those you find Brewing, and Pr. for those you find preparing to Brew, on the Margent of that Victualler's Stock-Book.
1774 Instr. Officers Duties on Glass (new ed.) 16 You are to reside at such Place in your Division or Ride, as your Collector and Supervisor approve of, in order to secure this, as well as other Branches of the Revenue under your Care.
1885 Civilian 3 Jan. 133/1 The breaking of Rides and Divisions affects no grade in the Service to the same extent as Assistants.
1989 H. Mui & L. H. Mui Shops & Shopkeeping Eighteenth Cent. Eng. ii. 31 A district was further divided into six to eleven rides.
2.
a. A turn or spell of riding on a horse or other animal, or (in later use) on a bicycle or motorcycle.donkey-, horse-, pony ride, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > a ride or spell of riding or excursion
roadeOE
ridinga1325
train1575
trotc1650
ride1708
equitation1728
outride1740
horse-ride1903
1708 T. Baker Fine Lady's Airs ii. 23 When the War's over, some of your Livery that have been us'd to Plundering abroad, and can't leave it off here, may after a Ride or two to Finchly Common have occasion to visit the Plantations.
1730 J. Miller Humours Oxf. ii. i. 30 A Ride, and the fresh Air—cheerful Company, and generous Wines may be of Service in this Case.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ix. 137 He had often promised the child a ride upon his galloway.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Elaine in Idylls of King 190 ‘Alas,’ he said, ‘your ride hath wearied you. Rest must you have’.
1898 F. Montgomery Tony 10 A few hours' bicycle ride in the country.
1913 C. E. Seashore Psychol. in Daily Life i. 18 Had elephants been available, elephant rides would have been preferred, because they were more imposing.
1931 Times 7 May 17/5 Princess Elizabeth of York is shown dressed for a ride..wearing a yellow jumper pulled down over her jodhpurs.
1991 Bicycle Guide Sept. 54/1 His smooth ride over the technical..course was aided by his downhill bike.
2008 K. Luxmoore Introd. Equestrian Sports vii. 124 Take the horse out for a ride in a large paddock to see how it reacts.
b. A journey or period of travel in a vehicle. Also (chiefly North American): a means of transportation provided to a person, often at no cost; a lift.ⓘbus, car-, plane, train ride, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle
ride1718
drive1752
1718 F. de La Pilonnière Reply to Dr. Snape's Vindic. ii. 31 He would take a Ride to Croydon, in order to get 'em [sc. two Guineas] from him.
1759 J. Wesley Jrnl. 13 Aug. (1764) 74 Monday, 13. I took a little ride to Croydon.
1779 Mrs. Harris in Priv. Lett. Ld. Malmesb. (1870) I. 433 Your father and I intend driving every day to the camp. 'Tis a fine ride.
1800 H. Wells Constantia Neville II. 15 Taking a ride with the nurse and child.
1808 E. Sleath Bristol Heiress I. 54 Miss Williams should..take a ride thither in Lady Harcourt's carriage.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Catherine vii A ride in a 'bus to Richmond.
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 161 To..enjoy his company during my car-ride up town.
1928 V. Delmar Bad Girl i. viii. 86 Once Dot took a bus ride downtown.
1950 S. Plath Jrnl. 20 Nov. (2000) 29 He asked if I would like a ride home on Thanksgiving with two other boys and himself.
1979 E. L. Doctorow Loon Lake x. 47 Bennett..took them for a speedboat ride on the lake.
1991 T. Kizzia Wake of Unseen Object vii. 165 I caught a ride on the back of a snowmachine as the snowy hills turned pink.
2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Jan. (Desert Song Suppl.) 2/3 (advt.) Or try a Hummer tour that starts with a sunset ride into the Four Peaks Mountains.
†c. An occupation which entails travelling on horseback. Obsolete. rare.
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1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 175/2 The trotting butcher is..not likely to be succeeded by any in the same line, or—as I heard it called—‘ride’ of business.
d. Surfing. An act of riding a wave. Cf. ride v. 12a. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. rail ride n. at rail n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > [noun] > actions of surfer
kick-out1801
ride1883
side-slip1913
surf1917
slide1935
pull-out1957
quasimodo1960
head dip1962
nose-riding1962
rolling1962
spinner1962
stalling1962
toes over1962
cutback1963
Eskimo roll1964
re-entry1968
right1968
rollercoaster1968
barrel roll1971
hold-down1982
railing1983
cross-stepping1990
cross-step1994
turtle roll2001
1883 Literary World 9 Feb. 82/1 The ride has all the excitement of a race; for, should the rider fail to keep his plank at exactly the right angle.., he will be overtaken by the breaking surf of the wave which follows.
1914 J. K. Goodrich Coming Hawaii 278 Those who have acquired somewhat exceptional proficiency can kneel upon their boards, or even stand upright after the ride has fairly begun.
1952 Chicago Tribune 7 June 8/2 The 1948 Republican platform on which Dewey took a surfboard ride into defeat.
1971 Times 9 Aug. 5/2 You compulsively turn and start paddling your board out to sea for ‘just one more ride’.
1993 Canoeist Dec. 58/3 The surf was pumping in and breaking either side of the pier... Some fine rides were seen.
2004 M. Sawyer Lady Killer 42 As perfect a ride as a surfer ever hoped to get—in a lifetime.
3.
a. Frequently with the. A broad avenue running across the south of Hyde Park, London, used by horse riders; = Rotten Row n. 1. Now chiefly historical.Horse riding on this avenue was a fashionable pursuit in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for horses or for riding > specifically in Hyde Park
ring1676
Rotten Row1761
ride1785
ring road1828
Ladies' Mile1848
1785 Life John Gilpin iii. 24 The Mall in Moorfields, the Ride in Hyde Park, and the walk in St. James's Park, were filled with whispers upon his appearance.
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 220 The ride being intended for the recreation of Noblemen, Gentlemen, &c.
1867 M. Arnold New Poems 166 We..reach'd the Ride Where gaily flows the human tide.
1922 Times 6 Dec. 11/6 Hogarth's horse swerved and threw him violently against one of the trees in the centre of the ride.
1989 Press Assoc. (Nexis) 5 July This ride was put down by William of Orange in 1689 and now the cars are destroying it.
2006 A. Smith in Model & Supermodel iv. 62 She insulted titled ladies by demanding that they give her precedence in the ride at Rotten Row.
b. gen. A path or track, esp. one through a wood, usually made for riding on horseback; a riding.straw, wood-ride, etc.: see the first element.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > for horses or for riding
horse-way985
ridingc1175
ridewaya1500
warple1565
bridleway1667
stirrup-way1736
horse-road1740
bridle road1745
horse-path1755
bridle path1779
ride1789
bridle track1794
horse-track1836
bridle traila1858
spur road1883
horse-ride1903
1789 W. Brown Rep. Cases Chancery II. 89 The injunction moved for was, to restrain him from cutting timber, or doing any waste in the rides or avenues to the house.
1805 Trans. Soc. Arts 23 139 Each separate division of the wood,..including fences, rides, and bog.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports i. i. vii. 64/1 In flying,..they may always be seen to take the same ride or break in the trees.
1898 M. Hewlett Forest Lovers xvi She..crossed open rides in fear what either vista might set bare.
1965 Times 18 Aug. 10/6 Before the ride tunnelled into the wood again its surface was gravelled.
1986 R. B. Evans Walks in Silverdale/Arnside v. 71 Turn right then immediately left down the woodland ride to the car park.
2008 Dunoon Observer & Argyllshire Standard 31 Oct. 8/3 There was more life in the surrounding treetops with a piping tribe of long-tailed tits working their way along the ride.
4.
a. A horse for riding; a mount. In later use with modifying adjective.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding
road horseOE
hackney1299
rouncyc1300
mounturec1400
hackney horse1473
steed1597
Galloway1598
roussin1602
naggon1630
saddle horse1647
sit-horse?1652
rider1698
saddle mare1707
hack1737
hack horse1760
ride1787
Bucephalus1799
steed-horse1842
mount1856
saddler1888
saddle seat1895
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 386 A Ride, a common name for a saddle-horse.
1904 County Gentleman 16 July 2096/3 Messrs. Ward's Stella, who in her day was a beautiful ride.
1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xiv. 123 He's a lovely ride. And he can jump anything you can see the sky over.
1963 A. Duggan Story of Crusades iv. 39 The warhorse was usually a stallion, which made it a nuisance in camp and an uncomfortable ride.
2004 Eventing Oct. 51 She's a great ride and..she behaved impeccably once she was in the arenas and going across country.
b. A roundabout, roller-coaster, etc., ridden at a fair or amusement park.rollercoaster, sky-ride: see the first element.
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society > leisure > entertainment > place of amusement or entertainment > fairground or amusement park > [noun] > fairground ride
ride1910
1910 N.Y. Times 22 May vi. 7/4 All of the amusement devices are not yet completed. A Trip to Mars on an Aeroplane and the Pneumatic Tube Ride are being got ready for use.
1934 Washington Post 17 June (Mag.) 9/4 The signs of the zodiac..were painted on the platform which held the supporting sweeps of the ride [sc. a carousel].
1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 v. 121 Down at the city beach, long after the pizza stands and rides had closed, she walked unmolested.
1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life iii. viii. 321 The carnival was closing for the night, the midway's crowd dwindling, the rides shutting down and the freak-show barkers hanging up their superlatives.
2001 Observer 15 Apr. (Escape section) 10/2 New last year was Hex—a haunted swing ride through a turning cursed room.
c. Chiefly U.S. slang (originally in African-American usage). A motor car. Also more widely: any kind of vehicle.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]
buggy1888
motor vehicle1890
motor carriage1894
autocar1895
jam jar1895
motor car1895
car1896
traction1896
motor1899
bubble1901
machine1901
Lizzie1913
buzz-wagon1914
road car1914
short1914
scooter1917
buzz-box1920
ride1930
drag1935
bus1939
wagon1955
wheels1959
sheen1968
low rider1974
scoot1977
1930 Amer. Speech 6 134 Ride, n., automobile.
1972 C. Milner & R. Milner Black Players v. 136 With his unspectacular conservative suits and modest ‘ride’ (a Toyota station wagon).
1989 T. McMillan Disappearing Acts xx. 273 This week look like it's gon' cost me close to three hundred bucks... All I'm gon' have to show for it is a damn T-shirt when it coulda been my down payment on a ride.
1998 T. Remus How to customize your Harley-Davidson 96 When it comes to new sheet metal for your ride there are at least three options.
2000 P. Beatty Tuff v. 70 The worst is when these rides with out-of-state plates pull up packed with twelve white boys.
2008 Chicago Tribune (Midwest ed.) 13 Apr. i. 3/1 President Bush, whose ride is known as ‘Air Force One’, is scheduled to greet the flight when it lands at Andrews Air Force Base.
d. North American. With possessive adjective. A person who gives another a lift in a vehicle. Cf. sense 2b.ⓘ
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1974 A. Laski Night Music 55 His ride had started buying him meals.
1991 D. Gidel Ceremony of Innocence xviii. 254 ‘I told my ride to go on without me,’ Anita said as she slid into the passenger side of the car.
1998 Washington Post (Nexis) 3 Mar. z16 ‘I need to head over to where I live,’ my ride said as he swung back into the car.
2006 B. Woodward State of Denial xvii. 177 I've got to go back with Doug. He's my ride.
5.
†a. A swaying or surging motion. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > movement of waves > [noun] > surging, rolling, or heaving
walteringc1400
washing?1473
rolling1485
walterc1540
surging1585
boil1805
welteringa1807
seethe1816
ride1822
whelm1842
welter1849
washing in1877
wash1883
1822 H. Ainslie Pilgrimage to Land of Burns 207 The rack an' the ride o' the restless tide.
b. Jazz slang. An easily flowing or swinging rhythm; a regular rhythm, esp. one played on a ride cymbal. Also: an improvised passage in such a rhythm.Recorded earliest in ride man n.2 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > section of piece of music > [noun] > passages in jazz
jazz1918
break1926
chorus1926
stop time1929
tag1929
lick1932
riff1933
ride1935
release1936
sock chorus1936
rideout1939
screamer1940
stop chords1941
chase1942
stop chorus1942
mop1945
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > duration of notes > proportion of notes or rhythm > [noun] > action of putting into rhythm > types of rhythm
swing1829
sprung rhythm1877
dance-rhythm1880
ragtime1896
slow drag1901
rumba1912
polymetre1922
cross-rhythm1926
tangana1926
counter-rhythm1927
ride1935
walking beat1935
ricky-tick1937
rock1937
shuffle rhythm1940
isorhythm1954
shuffle beat1955
tango rhythm1966
makossa1973
1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/2 Ride-men is the term applied to the improvisers of these licks.
1936 Delineator Nov. 49/2 Ride, easy-going rhythm.
1952 B. Ulanov Hist. Jazz in Amer. xi. 122 In that famous record he gave the chords of the tonic and the dominant a noisy ride.
1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 37 The ‘ride’ of a New Orleans jazz band, the ‘slow and easy’ slow-drag of a country blues band, have no counterpart in the forceful thrust of the multilineal drum rhythms.
1985 G. Giddins Rhythm-a-ning 217 The eight bars of B-flats..recall not only Armstrong, but the king of the one-note ride, Lester Young.
2005 M. Marucci Drumming Facts, Tips & Warm-ups xiii. 41 Some musicians insist that the actual cymbal ride cannot be written and that it is a ‘feeling’ that has to be learned.
c. In full ride cymbal. A cymbal used by esp. jazz or rock drummers for keeping up a continuous rhythm.In contrast to a crash cymbal (crash cymbal n. at crash n.1 Compounds 1) which is used mainly for single loud accents.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > [noun] > cymbal
cymbalc825
chimea1300
chime-bellc1300
basinsa1350
target1696
zill1754
cymbalon1824
finger cymbal1845
crash cymbal1927
choke-cymbal1934
sock cymbal1936
sizzle cymbal1944
top cymbal1948
ride1956
splash cymbal1961
1956 M. W. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) xviii. 234 Clarke made the single right-hand ‘ride’ or ‘top’ or ‘front’ cymbal the rhythmic center.
1977 New Yorker 9 May 51/1 He had a ride cymbal, and he played it..four beats to the bar.
1996 G. Nicholls in P. Trynka Rock Hardware 94/1 Most rock drummers of the late 1950s and early 1960s used generally similar four piece drum kits... Cymbals would comprise a ride, one or two crash cymbals, and a pair of hi-hats.
2007 Time Out N.Y. 1 Feb. 115/1 Any gifted soloist or collective could imply momentum without the presence of a walking bassline or the steady ching of a ride cymbal.
6. A batch of mounted recruits (Military). Also: a group of riders under instruction. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > branch of army > [noun] > cavalry > mounted recruits
ride1833
society > armed hostility > armed forces > the Army > unit of army > [noun] > squad, platoon, section, etc. > type of
awkward squad1796
ride1833
suicide squad1914
reaction force1923
1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 51 The Ride moves forward, preserving the dressing.
1896 Daily News 17 Jan. 3/3 Four selected rides of first-class recruits, who negotiated the jumps..with their arms folded.
1903 Times 24 Nov. 7/2 Rides should never, in fact, exceed eight.
1909 N. Birch Mod. Riding xv. 159 With a ride of several pupils..a jump can be put at each side of the school and the horses allowed to go round over them in single file.
7. slang.
a. An act of sexual intercourse. Cf. ride v. 20a, 20b.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of
swivec1560
fall1594
sleep1612
fuck1663
merry bout1780
stroke1785
screw?c1845
charver1846
fuckeea1866
sex act1888
frigc1890
grind1893
mount1896
poke1902
tumble1903
screwing1904
ride1905
roll1910
trick1926
lay1932
jump1934
bang1937
knock1937
shag1937
a roll in the hay1945
boff1956
naughty1959
root1961
shtup1964
home run1967
seeing to1970
legover1975
bonk1978
zatch1980
boink1989
1905 Bicycle in Coll. Unpubl. Pieces (typescript from N.Y. State) (O.E.D. Archive) 52 Up and down they pant and push, All through the summer weather And when the ride comes to an end, They both get off together.
1935 N. Algren Somebody in Boots vi. 110 Free ride, t'day gentlemen. If you want it, come an' get it.
1977 J. B. Hilton Dead-nettle xviii. 155 I'd slipped in once or twice while Frank was out. She deserved a slow ride in-between times with that big old oaf.
1997 H. Kureishi Love in Blue Time 121 Occasionally the drivers would go with the girls [sc. prostitutes]. ‘A ride in exchange for a ride,’ it was called.
2006 A. Martin Lost Luggage Porter (2008) xxvi. 232 Sampson..was watching a young woman sauntering under the trees... ‘I tell you, I mean to have a ride tonight,’ said Sampson.
b. Chiefly British and Irish English. A person regarded as a sexual partner or as sexually desirable; (also) a promiscuous person.
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1937 S. O'Casey I knock at Door 55 We met two lovely big-diddied rides, and they were all for us going home with them.
1982 B. MacLaverty Time to Dance (1985) 55 ‘She shows them to more than you,’ said Mingo. ‘What do you mean?’ ‘She's a ride.’
1996 R. Doyle Woman who walked into Doors xii. 53 I fancied him as well. I thought he was an absolute ride. I wouldn't have minded.
2004 M. Keyes Other Side of Story (2005) 346 Then as she walked me back out to Cody, I see this ride coming down the corridor towards us, lovely long limbs moving in a lovely suit.
8.
a. The quality of comfort, smoothness, etc., offered by a motor car or other means of transport while in use.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > [noun] > characteristic motion of vehicle
ride1929
1929 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 81 It will be engineered on hydraulic shock absorbers—cushions of liquid which..give the smoothest ride over the roughest roads.
1962 Which? Car Suppl. Oct. 126/2 The Sunbeam Rapier's ride was choppy.
1976 E. Torenbeek Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design (1982) vii. 227 A reduction of gust loads offers the occupants a smooth ride when flying through turbulent air.
1990 Peterson's 4-wheel & Off-road May 28/1 Our test Ford had an extremely long wheelbase, and the longer the wheelbase, the better the ride.
2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 4 Jan. (Sports section) 9/2 Toyota also did a good job of controlling body lean while still providing a comfortable ride, even on bad roads.
b. The quality of a horse's gait when being ridden.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > quality when being ridden
ride1955
1955 H. Smith Horseman through Six Reigns xix. 189 Most of the Irish hunters are shown fairly green... Their ride can either improve or deteriorate..after two or three years in England.
1995 B. L. Hendricks Internat. Encycl. Horse Breeds 276/1 The comfortable ride resulted from the characteristic gait, the marcha, a four-beat lateral gait.

Phrases

P1.
a. colloquial. for the ride: for pleasure or fun; as an observer only.
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society > leisure > entertainment > mere amusement > [adverb]
of or on the spleenc1460
for love1678
for fun1750
for the fun of the thing1751
for the fun of it1823
good for a laugh1835
for the ride1863
(just) for the hell of it1908
pour le sport1924
for (the) shits and giggles (also grins)1983
1863 ‘M. Harland’ Col. Floyd's Wards xvii, in Husks 505 Lily would like to go to the court-house this forenoon, just for the ride, you know, and I think the air and exercise will do her good.
1896 C. H. Haswell Reminisc. N.Y. xxiv. 484 Large open sleighs drawn by four and sometimes six horses were resorted to, and many individuals and parties enjoyed these for the ride alone.
1924 Los Angeles Times 6 Nov. ii. 4/3 Many a young man or girl enters the marital state with about as much real sentiment as that of a person going to a funeral just for the ride.
1951 J. Kerouac On the Road: Orig. Scroll (2007) 230 I only went along for the ride, and to see what else Neal was going to do.
1977 J. Wainwright Nest of Rats ii. iv. 167 I wouldn't know—I am along strictly for the ride.
2006 V. Spinetti & P. Rankin Victor Spinetti up Front xiv. 156 That's who they were. Relatives of the producer and the associate producer and so on, coming for the ride.
b. free ride: see as a main entry.
P2. full ride: see full ride n. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b.
P3. U.S. out of ride: (of a river) too swollen to be able to be crossed on horseback. Now rare.
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1855 M. E. Wormeley Our Cousin Veronica xvi. 297 The river is full and rising, but not ‘out of ride’, as several persons have crossed it since the morning.
1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Riding Rock A stream is said to be ‘out of ride’ when it is past fording [on horseback].
1918 S. Ely Centennial Hist. Villages Iroquois & Montgomery 23 [Quoting talk given in 1879] ‘Stop, stop, that stream is out of ride.’ That was something I had not heard before and I did not know what it meant... I backed my horse around and got out of the stream.
P4. colloquial. to have (also give) a rough (also easy, etc.) ride: to have or give a difficult, easy, etc., time or experience.
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1955 G. P. Chapman Dreyfus Case xv. 284 Two groups..rioted in the neighbourhood, and the police had a rough ride before breaking up the mobs.
1969 S. Hyland Top Bloody Secret ii. 234 Judging by what he said on the phone, he won't give you an easy ride.
1974 Times 5 Nov. 15/1 President Giscard d'Estaing has had a fairly quiet ride until now.
1978 Times 17 Jan. 19/5 Union officials..met the new Leyland chief... He was given a rough ride.
1993 Tatler July 98/1 I got off to a good start and was having an easy ride.
2002 N.Y. Times 12 May iv. 5/4 Hungary, like its neighbors, has had a bumpy ride during the last 12 years of democracy.
P5. to take for a ride and variants (originally North American).
a. colloquial. To tease; to mislead deliberately, to deceive, hoax, cheat.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > trickery, playing jokes > play tricks [phrase]
to do or make a blenk or blencha1250
to play (a person) a pageant1530
to give one the geck1568
to play a paw1568
to draw through the water with a cat1631
come1714
to run one's rig upon1793
to come (the) paddy over1809
to work a traverse1840
to go on, have, take a lark1884
to pull a fast one1912
to take for a ride1925
to pull a person's pissera1935
to pull a person's chain1975
1925 Dial. Notes 5 344 Newfoundland Dialect Terms... Take for a ride, jolly; josh.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. iv. ii. 283 ‘Do you mean that?’ asked Mr. Adelaide nervously. ‘Nonsense,’ said Mr. Boles. ‘He's taking you for a ride.’
1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. i. 203 But for Vin, there were winks and the tongue stuck in the cheek, the wide boy who wasn't to be taken for a ride by anyone.
1973 ‘D. Jordan’ Nile Green ix. 43 She said, quickly,..‘Are you an expert?’.. I said, ‘Not at all... You could take me for a ride any day you chose.’
2003 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. 32/2 It has called in forensic accountants..fearing that some businesses may be taking the public purse for a ride.
b. Chiefly U.S. Criminals' slang. To take on a car journey for the purpose of murdering or kidnapping.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > kidnapping or abduction > kidnap or abduct [verb (transitive)] > take on a journey with intention of
to take for a ride1925
1925 Chicago Tribune 22 July 3/1 Gunmen executed one of their fellows yesterday after ‘taking him for a ride’.
1933 P. G. Wodehouse Heavy Weather i. 12 Perhaps some Duke who doesn't want to see himself in the ‘Peers I Have Been Thrown Out Of Public Houses With’ chapter has been threatening to take him for a ride.
1979 T. Barling Olympic Sleeper ix. 103 Not Costas driving... They must be dumping the cab. Or taking Costas for a ride.
2008 J. Sialiano So You wanna be Mobster 19 That Luciano survived being ‘taken for a ride’, he became something of a legend, the man they couldn't kill.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective.
a. (In sense 1.)
ride officer n. now historical
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
1799 Parl. Reg. 1797–1802 IX. 266 William Hayward..Ride Officer.
1844 Times 18 Mar. 7/7 From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared, that he was what is termed ‘a ride officer’ of Excise.
1956 D. Marshall Eng. People Eighteenth Cen. vii. 272 It is difficult to see how a footwalk officer with £65 a year, a ride officer with £60, and an assistant with only £45 remained both solvent and moderately honest.
2004 R. Clarke Surgeon's Cent. i. 2 He seems to have travelled less but covered Lanholm, Falkirk and Paisley, before being promoted to ‘ride officer’ in Londonderry in August 1857.
b. (In sense 3b.)
ride-gate n.
ΚΠ
1919 J. Masefield Reynard the Fox i. 53 A jam of horses in the spinney, Close to the ride-gate.
ride path n.
ΚΠ
1884 Glasgow Herald 18 Nov. 2/7 Reynard is soon viewed crossing the ride path of the planting, but hesitates to face the gale until the hounds press him to the open.
1985 C. Cookson Bannaman Legacy ii. iii. 80 When she reached the fork she took the ride path.
ride side n.
ΚΠ
1918 Jrnl. Ecol. 6 111 Ligustrum vulgare only does well on the ride sides.
1943 J. W. Day Farming Adventure xvii. 187 For two miles we rode through half~grown timber, the ride-sides choked with thistles, blue- and red-headed, tangled with long grasses and tall flowering weeds.
1996 G. F. Peterken Nat. Woodland (2001) xvii. 457/2 Ponds on ride sides, maintained for fire fighting, act as substitutes for the moorland pools.
c. (In sense 5b.)
ride solo n.
ΚΠ
1938 Swing Dec. 11/3 Trombonist Jerry Borchard gets off a light ride solo in the upper register.
1949 Ebony June 41 When Willie plays a ride solo, he is better received than anyone else in the band.
2003 ITG Conf. Phil Driscoll Concert in rec.music.makers.trumpet (Usenet newsgroup) 17 May They can actually hit notes with a discernable center of pitch, and can stay within the chord of the moment when doing ride solos.
ride tempo n.
ΚΠ
1934 P. Weirick Dance Arranging 82 Bright Medium Tempo, Brightly, Fast Tempo, Fast Ride Tempo.
1999 Help Me Choose Ride, Please! in rec.music.makers.percussion (Usenet newsgroup) 6 May For the most part, the wash of a K C Ride does NOT overtake the stick attack sound, even at rapid sprint ride tempos.
d. (In sense 8a).
ride characteristic n.
ΚΠ
1961 Which? Reports on Cars 14 Ride characteristics for driver and passenger are assessed subjectively and, where possible, measured by instruments.
1999 BBC Top Gear Mag. Aug. 23/4 Gearchange is primitive, ride characteristics remain fidgety and cornering with gusto results in lashings of understeer.
ride comfort n.
ΚΠ
1937 Pop. Mech. Feb. 1 a (advt.) Sensational ‘ride-comfort’.
1990 Country Homes Oct. 62/4 You lose some ride comfort but gain sharper steering response and even better roadholding.
ride control n.
ΚΠ
1934 Pop. Mech. June 874/1 Since 1923 we have had balloon tires, safety glass, vacuum brakes, synchromesh transmission, automatic ride control..and centrifuse brake drums.
2006 Saltscapes (Canada) Sept. 91/2 (advt.) The CAT has revolutionary aluminum hull construction, an active trim tab and a T-foil ride control system that ensure a comfortable ride for passengers.
ride height n.
ΚΠ
1947 Pop. Sci. Monthly Oct. 96/2 When Macqueen and his engineers adjust the cars' rear wing..they unexpectedly increase the strain on the springs which changes the ride height and further increases the downforce.
1992 Leisureways Oct. 18/2 She found this vehicle the easiest to get our daughter in and out of, primarily because the ride height puts the child seat at a perfect height.
ride luxury n.
ΚΠ
1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts Dec. 38/2 I shall always remember the impression of ride luxury when we first interconnected that Alvis.
1998 Business Wire (Nexis) 28 July The coast..suspension control system uses Variable Constant Force( tm) to achieve unparalleled ride luxury, stability and safety for virtually all automotive, truck, bus and rv applications.
ride quality n.
ΚΠ
1934 Wall St. Jrnl. 8 Jan. 16/3 (heading) Independent wheel suspension, improved ride qualities mark new cars.
2000 Truck & Driver Nov. 63/1 Ride quality was good, as you'd expect from a tractor with such a long wheelbase and three axles.
C2.
ride-hailing n. the use of a mobile app or website to engage a personal driver to collect and transport a fare-paying customer to a chosen destination; often as a modifier, as in ride-hailing app, ride-hailing company, etc.Cf. ride-sharing n. (b); ride-hailing is now the more usual term.
ΚΠ
2010 @tlaughlin 20 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 22 Mar. 2021) What a great concept. Mobile ride hailing.
2012 Slate Mag. (Nexis) 20 Dec. I first spotted it [sc. the mobile payment feature] in Uber, the ride-hailing app.
2019 S. Zoepf & W. Riggs in W. Riggs Disruptive Transport xi. 159 While ride-hailing companies..are increasing in popularity the taxi industry is suffering.
ride job n. U.S. Criminals' slang = ride killing n.
ΚΠ
1951 B. B. Turkus & S. Feder Murder, Inc. 15 The Pennsylvania State Police reopened the eight-year-old killings, in the Scranton area, of Lew Marcowitz (a ride job), Jack Steinberg (shotgun), and Sam Wichner (stuffed in an automobile luggage compartment).
ride killing n. U.S. Criminals' slang an act of taking a person on a car journey with the intention of killing him or her.
ΚΠ
1929 San Antonio (Texas) Light 12 Oct. 1/7 The manner of his slaying was identical with that employed in gang ‘ride’ killings.
1968 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 27 May 3/3 (headline) Youth gets life sentence for last ride killing.
ride-share n. (a) an arrangement whereby people travel together in a single vehicle rather than separately, typically to reduce the expense or environmental impact of regular journeys such as commuting to work; an instance of this; often (and earliest) as a modifier, as in ride-share plan; (b) a mobile app or website used to engage a personal driver to collect and transport a fare-paying customer to a chosen destination; usually as a modifier, as in ride share app, ride share service, etc.ⓘIn sense (a), the more common term in North American usage is carpool: see car pool n.For usage of sense (b) see the note at ride-sharing n., and cf. ride-hailing n..
ΚΠ
1943 Labor's Monthly Surv. Sept. 4 See that the plant labor-management committee has a subcommittee organizing ride share plans.
2007 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 2 Nov. 50 Craigslist.org is an online notice-board used to arrange ride-shares by about 250,000 people a year.
2008 @arstechnica 22 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Sept. 2021) Bus company tries to shutter web-based ride-share service.
2014 Investor's Business Daily 29 Jan. a14 To use a ride-share, a customer must already have secured credit card approval. There is no cash in the ride-share transaction.
2018 Philadelphia Inquirer (Nexis) 29 July a3 Ride share is more likely to take the place of walking, biking, or taking public transit than a person using one's own car.
2019 Make Tech Easier (Nexis) 17 May Ride-share apps are very easy on the wallet, and the convenience is a big plus point.
ride-sharing n. (a) participation in a scheme whereby people travel together in a single vehicle rather than separately, typically to reduce the expense or environmental impact of regular journeys such as commuting to work; frequently as a modifier, as in ride-sharing arrangement; (b) the use of a mobile app or website to engage a personal driver to collect and transport a fare-paying customer to a chosen destination; often as a modifier, as in ride-sharing app, ride-sharing service, etc. ⓘIn sense (b), customers typically do not share the vehicle with other customers; the use of sharing refers to the online marketplace created by some apps or websites (cf. sharing economy n.). For this reason it is viewed by some as a misleading term in this context, but it is often used interchangeably with ride-hailing n.
ΚΠ
1942 N.Y. Times 30 June 15/1 Under the ‘ride-sharing arrangement’, members of a pool..may..ask for supplemental allotments for other special needs beyond the limits of their own ration book.
1977 Chicago Tribune 2 Oct. xiii. 3/2 For a considerable number of motorists polled, it would take $2 gasoline to push them into sacrificing pleasure driving or switching to..ride-sharing to get to their jobs.
2006 A. Steffen et al. Worldchanging (2008) 266/2 Residents who work off-site..are encouraged to take advantage of carpool, vanpool, and other ride-sharing programs.
2008 @trendhunter 4 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Sept. 2021) Social Ride Sharing Communities—PickUpPal.
2015 PR Newswire (Nexis) 28 May Ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft have snatched quite a bit of the transportation market share from conventional taxi services.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

RIDEn.3

Brit. /rʌɪd/, U.S. /raɪd/, Canadian English /raid/
Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymons: English reduce impaired driving in Etobicoke, reduce impaired driving everywhere.
Etymology: Acronym, originally < the initial letters of reduce impaired driving in Etobicoke ( < reduce v. + impaired adj. + driving n. + Etobicoke , the name of the Toronto suburb where the campaign started), punningly after ride v.; later reinterpreted as < the initial letters of reduce impaired driving everywhere. Compare RID n.2
Canadian.
A campaign against drink-driving whereby police stop vehicles at random to administer sobriety tests to drivers. Frequently attributive.
ΚΠ
1977 Toronto Star 10 Sept. a1/4 The experiment will provide three teams of police crews covering the Etobicoke area 24 hours a day, every day of the year. The program has been labelled ride, which stands for Reduce Impaired Driving in Etobicoke.
1979 Toronto Star 29 May a1/1 Etobicoke's successful campaign against drinking drivers goes Metro-wide in mid-September. It will be called ride Metro (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere in Metro).
1979 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 21 Nov. Police said the car did not stop for a ride (Reduce Impaired Driving Everywhere) spot check at Mason Road and Eglinton Avenue East west of Markham Road.
1995 Leisureways Apr.–May (CAA Club News) 6/2 She..was on the original steering committee for the tremendously successful ride program.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† rideadj.1

Forms: late Middle English ride, late Middle English rydde, late Middle English ryde; Scottish pre-1700 reid, pre-1700 rid, pre-1700 ride, pre-1700 ryd, pre-1700 ryde.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a borrowing from Dutch. Perhaps formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: Dutch rijd ; unride adj.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < Middle Dutch rijd, ryde violent (although this is apparently first attested later: only in Teuthonista (1477); probably < the Germanic base of writhe v.); or perhaps < unride adj. with loss of the first syllable. Compare roid adj.
Obsolete.
Of a blow: violent, severe. In quot. c1440: (of a warrior) fierce.In Bruce vi. 288 the Edinburgh MS. has roid by mistake for ride.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [adjective] > striking hard or vigorously > hard or vigorous (of blows)
roundc1380
ridec1425
rattling1800
sheer1865
c1425 (c1400) Laud Troy-bk. 9271 (MED) Then myȝt men se strokes ride, Gregeis feld on eche a syde.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure l. 4117 (MED) Redily thas rydde men of the rownde table With ryall raunke stele rittys theire mayles.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xii. l. 557 Ther men mycht se..mony a riall rymmyll ryde Be roucht thair on athir syde.
1508 Golagros & Gawane (Chepman & Myllar) sig. bii*v Yit sal I..reve thame thair rentis with routis full ride.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1921) II. ii. 1721 Thir knichtis..wer..Defendand thame with routis ryde.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

† rideadj.2

Forms: late Middle English ryde.
Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by back-formation. Or (ii) a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: unride adj.; English gerȳde.
Etymology: Either a back-formation < unride adj. (compare unride adj. 2), or aphetic < Old English gerȳde, precise meaning uncertain, perhaps ‘smooth, pleasant, easy’ (one isolated attestation: see below; < ge- y- prefix + a base of unknown origin).Old English gerȳde is attested only once (in a riddle from a damaged portion of the Exeter Book where the sense is not entirely clear):OE Riddle 63 15 Þa unc geryde wæs.
Obsolete. rare.
Moderate, small, slight.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > slight
brief1432
ride?a1500
nice1561
remote1625
slim1671
faint1726
slightish1761
?a1500 (a1475) Wright's Chaste Wife (1869) l. 524 As he cam by hys hows syde He hard [emended in ed. to herd] noyse that was nott ryde Of persons two or thre.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

ridev.

Brit. /rʌɪd/, U.S. /raɪd/
Inflections: Past tense rode; past participle ridden;
Forms: 1. Present stem. a. Infinitive Old English hridan (rare), Old English ridan, Middle English–1600s ryde, Middle English– ride, late Middle English redyng (Norfolk, present participle), late Middle English reyde, late Middle English rydy (probably transmission error), late Middle English ryed, late Middle English ryede, late Middle English–1500s ryd, late Middle English–1600s rid, 1500s ridd; English regional 1800s– rahd (Yorkshire), 1800s– rahde (Yorkshire), 1800s– ryde; Scottish pre-1700 rayd, pre-1700 reyd, pre-1700 reyedd, pre-1700 rid, pre-1700 ridd, pre-1700 ryd, pre-1700 rydd, pre-1700 ryed, pre-1700 ryid, pre-1700 ryidd, pre-1700 1700s– ride, pre-1700 1700s– ryde, pre-1700 1900s– reid, 1900s– raid. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. iii. 260 Heht hine Theodor biscop ridan.OE Riddle 80 7 Hwilum ic on wloncum wicge ride herges on ende.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 218 Þa lette he riden vnirimed folc. ▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 350 On his hunting, as he cam ride. ▸ 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 433/2 Rydyn, equito.a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 14818 Scardeburghe..An hauene..is schipes in to ryde.1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 307 To Ryde, equitare.a1500 (a1400) Ipomedon (Chetham) (1889) l. 1164 Where thou shalte goo or ryede.1533 J. Gau tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay 36 He sal rid apone ane ass.1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. viii Camels..they doe..lade, and ryde vppon.1591 in C. Innes Registrum Honoris de Morton (1853) I. 172 It hes plesit God to visit me with ane extreme fyfher that I may [nather] reid nor gange.a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 281 Marry Ile ride your horse as well as I ride you.1639 Sc. Acts Parl. (1814) V. 249 To ryde solemnlie to Parliament.1696 in J. D. Marwick & R. Renwick Charters rel. Glasgow (1906) II. 265 A steep hill, hardly (if at all) rydable, and utterly impassible aither to ryd wp or doun with double horse.c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) To ride tythe, to tythe, or to set out tithe, i.e. to ride about for that purpose [of collecting tithes].1834 R. S. Bayley Notitiæ Ludæ 190 The monks knew..they would soon have the pleasure of riding on a hurdle to Tyburn, or of swinging over their abbey gates for disobedience to the king.1892 M. C. F. Morris Yorks. Folk-talk 360 Did'st ta rahd wi t' traan?1992 D. Purves Shakespeare's Tragedie o Macbeth iii. i. 27 A micht weill hae ti ryde an oor or twa i the derk forby. b. 3rd singular indicative.

α. Old English–Middle English rit, Middle English riȝdt, Middle English riȝth, Middle English riit, Middle English ritt, Middle English ryt, Middle English ryte (in a late copy), Middle English rytt, late Middle English right, late Middle English riȝt, late Middle English riht, late Middle English rite, late Middle English rith, late Middle English ritte, late Middle English ryght, late Middle English ryȝt, late Middle English rygth, late Middle English ryȝth, late Middle English ryȝtte, late Middle English ryth. eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xx. 476 Nan mon forðy ne rit þe hine rida[n ly]ste.OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 10 Quis equitat hi ciuitate? Hwa rit into ðam port?c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 177 Þe ilke sari wrecches..beoð þe deofles eaueres þet rit ham & spureð ham to don al þet he wule.?a1300 Maximian (Digby) l. 244 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 100 Wer riit þe mon Þat heiȝte maximion?c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 1260 Beues an hakenai be-strit And in is wei forþ a rit.c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 956 Þe oþre..chacyeþ forþ Olyuere And leggeþ on hym strokes harde as he riȝdt y-bounde.c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. i. l. 186 Wher he ryt oþer rest.?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 159 And ell he rytt in a charett with iiij wheles.1457 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Naples) (1969) 289 Whate man that he[r] furth riȝt [a1500 Lamb. Whoso ridi[s] here day or nyght He most nedys with me fight].1532 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Digby 145) (1960) A. iv. 23 Ryte [c1400 Trin. Cambr. Resoun wiþ hym rit & rapiþ hym ȝerne].

β. Old English–early Middle English rideð, early Middle English rideþþ ( Ormulum), Middle English rideþ, Middle English ridez, Middle English ridis, Middle English ridiþ, Middle English ridith, Middle English ryddez, Middle English ryddis, Middle English rydeþ, Middle English rydez, Middle English rydis, Middle English rydiþ, Middle English rydith, Middle English rydys, Middle English rydythe, Middle English–1500s rydethe, Middle English–1500s rydyth, Middle English–1600s rydes, Middle English–1600s rydeth, Middle English– rides, Middle English– rideth (now archaic), late Middle English redeþ, late Middle English rydyȝt; Scottish pre-1700 riddis, pre-1700 ridis, pre-1700 ryddes, pre-1700 rydis, pre-1700 ryds, pre-1700 ryidis, pre-1700 1700s– rides. OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 17 Þonne rideð ælc hys weges mid ðan feo.c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6966 Þatt follc rideþþ onn an der Þatt iss dromeluss nemmnedd.a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3953 Ðus rideð forð ðis man for-loren.c1330 Horn Child l. 779 in J. Hall King Horn (1901) 188 Þer Horn seiȝe þe mest þrang, In he rides hem a-mang.c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2162 Ridez þurȝ þe roȝe bonk ryȝt to þe dale.c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 292 Ho þat rydyȝt her day oþer nyȝt Wyth me he mot take fyȝt. ▸ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1127 Se madam..where rydys in a charyot a goodly armed knyght, and we suppose he rydyth unto hangynge.c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) 57 The busteous blast..Quhilk ramping ouer his rigging ryds.a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 261 The Lord of Armies, wha ryddes upon the winges of the wounds.1714 London Gaz. No. 5195/4 Commonly Rides with her Tongue out of her Mouth.1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. vii. 229 Wha's this stripling that rides the good dun mare.1926 J. Buchan Dancing Floor i. vi She rides well, but her manners are atrocious.2002 Pop. Mech. Dec. 140/3 We found the Saturn to be fun on the street. lt rides nicely, too.

2. Past tense. a.

α. (Originally 1st and 3rd singular indicative) Old English–Middle English (1500s rare) rad, early Middle English ræd, Middle English rade, late Middle English rayd (northern); English regional 1700s– readd (north-western), 1800s raad (Yorkshire), 1800s reayde (Westmorland), 1800s red (Lancashire), 1800s– rade (northern), 1800s– rahde (Yorkshire), 1800s– read (Cumberland), 1800s– reade (north-western), 1800s– reead (Westmorland), 1800s– ryad (Cumberland), 1900s– rayd (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 rad, pre-1700 raeid, pre-1700 raide, pre-1700 rayd, pre-1700 rayde, pre-1700 read, pre-1700 reedde, pre-1700 reid, pre-1700 1700s–1800s redd, pre-1700 1700s– rade, pre-1700 1700s– raid, pre-1700 1800s rede, pre-1700 1800s– red, 1900s– reed; N.E.D. (1909) also records a form 1800s raidd. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. vii. 178 Sum man rad be þære stowe. Þa ongon his hors semninga wergian.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Se king rad in his derfald.c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 40 He, rarinde, rad ruglunge in-to helle.c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 1915 Tristrem..rade Into þe wode oway.c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 147 Out of hauen þai rade Til þai com til atoun..Her sailes þai leten doun.a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11425 Þair scrippes, quer þai rade [a1400 Gött. rad, a1400 Trin. Cambr. rode] or yode, þam failed neuer o drinc ne fode.c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 310 He rade his ways.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 329 Toward odymsy syne thai rayde.a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) 1501 Whan he had his prayers made Pertely to hem he Rade.1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 533 He raid ouir all Scotland.1594 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 347 Back wt him I red.1615 W. Mure Misc. Poems xiv. 4 Quhill he liued, to Pluto [he] raid post.1644 in G. F. Black Sc. Witchcraft Trials (1941) 929 Mailie Paittersone read upone ane cat, Jonet Lockie read upone ane cock, and thy aunt..read upone ane thorne trie and thyself read upone ane bottell of strae.1662 in J. R. N. Macphail Highland Papers (1920) III. 5 Remember in the night ye reedde at the back of Arran.a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 58 Where e'er I gaed, where e'er I rade.1816 W. Scott Old Mortality xiv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 293 They..rade through the country couping and selling a' that they gat.1871 J. Richardson Cummerland Talk 1st Ser. 71 I teuk t' meer an' read ower to see this coo.1875 E. Tweddell Rhymes Cleveland Dial. 60 He rahde round te mah sahde.1931 J. T. S. Leask Peculiar People 125 Dey haved doon deir etches, luppid api deir horse, an' reed for da Skerries at a spunder.?2002 I. W. D. Forde Hale ir Sindries 125 Whan thai cam by a toun or pele, men raid out ti speir thair beisnes.

β. (Originally 1st and 3rd singular indicative) Middle English roden (plural), Middle English–1500s rodde, Middle English–1600s road, Middle English–1600s rood, Middle English–1600s roode, Middle English–1700s rod, Middle English– rode, 1500s–1600s roade; English regional 1800s rawd (Somerset), 1800s ruid (Cumberland), 1800s– reudd (Cumberland), 1800s– rod, 1800s– rwode (Cumberland), 1900s– raud (Devon); Scottish pre-1700 road, pre-1700 roade, pre-1700 rod, pre-1700 roid, pre-1700 1700s– rode. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 89 Ure helende rod þerone.a1300 Passion our Lord l. 68 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 39 He..rod vppe on asse.c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) l. 607 King charles rood þidere a non, & kniȝtes wiþ him many on. ▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 1271 He tok his hors and rod anon.1415 in 43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1882) App. i. 587 in Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1 Ye Erle of Cambrege and I in ye Devels nome Roden to ye Hamull in ye Hoke.c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 444 Lybeaus..rod forþ pas be pas.1451 J. Osbern in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 74 He rode wyth v men to a squieris place of hese there-by and vn Tewsday rodde my lady to hym. ▸ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 21 Ulphuns and Brastias bare the two knyghtes oute of their sadils to the erth and so leffte them lyynge and rode their wayes.c1475 (a1400) Sir Amadace (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 29 Amadace..Rode furthe opon his way.a1500 (?c1450) Merlin (1899) 202 Thei rode so her iournes till thei com to Tarsaide.1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus at Alcoranum The asse, that Jesus rodde on.1596 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent (rev. ed.) 398 He roade to London.c1600 Wriothesley's Chron. Eng. (1875) I. 51 Then she roode to Hunsdone agayne.1653 H. Holcroft tr. Procopius Gothick Warre ii. 51 in tr. Procopius Hist. Warres Justinian As the Romans rod back.c1695 in J. Maidment Analecta Scotica (1834) I. 153 Wee road post to London in six days.a1700 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 42 On a pale Horse lean as himself, he rod.1768 T. Gray Descent of Odin in Poems 87 Down the yawning steep he rode.1808 R. Anderson et al. Ballads in Cumberland Dial. (new ed.) 143 Away we ruid heame.1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 324 We rode a weary way.1900 A. H. Norway Parson Peter 267 A raud like the devil.1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 109 When the boys were teen-aged, they occasionally saddled up and rode twenty-six miles to dances in Shoshoni.

b.

α. Plural indicative Old English reodan, Old English ridan, Old English ridon, Old English riodan, Old English rydon (rare), late Old English ridone, late Old English–Middle English riden, early Middle English reoden, Middle English redyn, Middle English ryden, Middle English rydyn, late Middle English reden, late Middle English redenn, late Middle English rydden. eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 871 Her cuom se here to Readingum.., & þæs ymb iii niht ridon ii eorlas up.OE Beowulf (2008) 3169 Þa ymbe hlæw riodan hildediore.lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1127 Hi ridone on swarte hors.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 2746 Þat Romanisce floc riden [c1300 reoden] heom bi-hinden.c1330 (?c1300) Amis & Amiloun (Auch.) (1937) l. 1304 Þai riden to-gider wiþ schaftes long.a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1881) i. l. 473 Wher-so men wente or riden.a1450 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Caius) l. 4053 in K. Brunner Mittelengl. Vers-roman über Richard Löwenherz (1913) 294 Þese reden in þe vawmewarde.a1500 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Lamb.) (1969) 569 Lybeaus and that may Rydden in her jornaye..Tyll that the ther[d] day They reden [Calig. ryde] in game and playe.

β. Middle English ride, late Middle English red, late Middle English redde (probably transmission error), late Middle English rede, late Middle English reyde, late Middle English ridde, late Middle English rydde, late Middle English ryde, late Middle English–1500s rydde, late Middle English–1600s ryd, late Middle English–1800s (1900s– regional) rid, 1500s–1600s ridd, 1500s–1600s ridde, 1600s rydd; Scottish pre-1700 ryd, pre-1700 1700s– rid. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1213 Þan ride to-gedere a gret route of rinkes ful nobul & went euen to sir william & wonderli him bi-sette.c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 1036 Ten þousande barons hir comen myde And to chirche wiþ hire ryde.c1400 (?a1300) King Alexander (Laud 622) 1201 He touched his horne and forþ ride; Many man hym went mide.c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 1605 Þo he tok a schaft rounde Wyth cornall scharp y-grounde And ryde be ryȝt resoun.c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn (1887) 1471 He..rid so forth talking..Homward to his plase.1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) 83 So longe rydde blanchardyn.a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 44 Her father and other knyghttes mo Had farly, how he Ryd soo.1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xii. 12 And so [they] ryd forth on theyr iourneis.a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 244 Hou bischope Androw Forman rid to Rome.1599 R. Hakluyt tr. R. Reineccius in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 15 His troopes..rid backe vpon the spurre.1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times ii. 33 The same footman..also ridde.1714 R. Steele Lover No. 11 He rid an Hour and a half.1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto XIII xxiii. 66 Henry rid Well, like most Englishmen.1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond II. v. 96 He rid to the inn of the village.1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 117 As the good wessel..rid over the towerin seas.1999 in Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) at cited word [Ayrshire] He rid doon tae the shops.

3. Past participle.

α. Old English geriden, early Middle English hiiriden, Middle English iriden, Middle English ridyn, Middle English rydyn, Middle English yriden, Middle English–1600s ryden, Middle English–1700s riden, late Middle English iredden, late Middle English ireden, late Middle English jreden, late Middle English reden, late Middle English redene, late Middle English redyn, late Middle English redyne, late Middle English ryddyn, late Middle English yreden, late Middle English–1500s rydden, 1500s rydyne, 1500s– ridden, 1600s ridd'n; Scottish pre-1700 reden, pre-1700 redyng, pre-1700 riddin, pre-1700 riddine, pre-1700 ridding, pre-1700 riddyn, pre-1700 riden, pre-1700 ridin, pre-1700 ridine, pre-1700 ridne, pre-1700 ridyn, pre-1700 ridyne, pre-1700 ryddan, pre-1700 ryddin, pre-1700 ryddine, pre-1700 rydding, pre-1700 ryddyn, pre-1700 ryden, pre-1700 rydyn, pre-1700 rydyne, pre-1700 1700s– ridden; N.E.D. (1909) also records a form late Middle English rydin. OE Glosses to Bella Parisiacae Urbis of Abbo of St. Germain (Harl. 3271) in W. H. Stevenson Early Scholastic Colloquies 109 Equitatur canterius [glossed equus] antelis postelisque : bið geriden hengest mid forgyrdum & mid æfterræpum.c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 12404 Heo beoð hider iriden.c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 5859 Merlin hadde riden a while Þe mountaunce of to mile.?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 3 I hafe many tymes..riden it.1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 520 My brother is redyn to Yarmowth. ▸ a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 704 They had ryddyn awhyle.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 326 Scottis men..in the forest War ryddin.a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 174 Hit bifel a cas, þat hir husbonde was I-Redden to his contre.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 327 We haue ridden so nere.1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 406 Four myl scho had not ȝit ridne.1639 Sc. Acts Parl. (1814) V. 254 These who..have..riddine before him.1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 5 A natural sottishness fitt to be abus'd and ridd'n.1741 G. Berkeley in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley (1871) 274 To be ridden and hood winked by the Pope.1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 340 I have ridden..over it in every direction.1929 E. Linklater Poet's Pub xxiii. 253 I was ridden on a rail..in nothing but a torn shirt.1963 Times 28 Aug. 3/7 Barlow got away from the throw-in, and when he was ridden off the back, Crompton, backing up well, scored again.

β. Middle English iride, Middle English iryde, Middle English ride, Middle English yride, Middle English yryde, Middle English–1500s ryde, Middle English–1600s ryd, late Middle English rede, late Middle English yrede, late Middle English–1600s ridde, 1500s rydde, 1500s–1600s ridd, 1500s–1800s (1900s– regional) rid; Scottish pre-1700 ridd, pre-1700 ryd, 1700s ridde, 1700s– rid, 1800s red (Shetland). c1300 Ministry & Passion of Christ (Laud) (1873) l. 796 An Asse colt..þare ȝe schulle iseo..Ope ȝwam no man ne hath ȝeot iride.c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 3093 Þer com ȝete king Carodas..he fer hadde yride. ▸ a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2859 This Consul..was into the feldes ride.c1400 (?c1280) Old Test. Hist. in F. J. Furnivall Adam Davy's 5 Dreams (1878) 89 So fer to haue iryde.a1450 Memorandum in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 522 Edmund is rede forth to Heydon.c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) 1033 Ne hadde þey ryde but a whyle..Þey sawe an hynde com st[r]yke.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 306 They had not ryd halfe a league.1664 H. More Expos. 7 Epist. 130 They have not rid upon white Horses.a1686 J. Gordon Hist. Scots Affairs (1841) II. 280 Collonel Gunne..was but ridd upp the river syde a little.1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant i. i. 1 We have rid a swinging pace.1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 308 My Brother..and Mr. H. are all rid out together.a1817 J. Austen Northanger Abbey (1818) I. x. 161 He has rid out this morning with my father.1887 E. Douglas Phantasmagoria 44 Ambling palfreys with gilt hoof Rid by some wandering queen.1999 in Sc. National Dict. New Suppl. (Electronic text) at cited word [Ayrshire] He hes rid monie horses.

γ. 1500s–1600s (1800s– English regional) rod, 1500s–1800s (1900s– regional and nonstandard) rode; Scottish 1700s–1800s rode. 1552 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 27 The xxj day of Desember rod to Tyborne to be hangyd for a robery..iij talmen and a lake.1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 95 Helter skelter, haue I rode to thee.a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 10 And had Rod up and downe that part of the country.1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire x. 228 A woman.., upon observing a man in armour galloping full speed towards her,..ran off, afraid of being rode down.1788 Trifler No. 18 We might in a few years behold a sweepstakes rode by women.1835 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VII. 92 Tom having rode thither direct.1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xviii. 302 The swarms which..have sailed, and rode, and traded.1910 Leather Workers' Jrnl. Mar. 364/1 Bro. Herbert Burnet has rode the cushions to ‘Budweiserville’ (St. Louis).a1971 S. Smith Coll. Poems (1975) 79 I have rode on for many a mile.2007 R. H. Henry Bowden's South Pass Justice xix. 278 It looks like they don't want anyone else to know either or they wouldn't have rode the stream to cover their tracks.

δ. English regional (Cumberland) 1800s– rudden. 1871 J. Richardson Cummerland Talk 1st Ser. 32 Their nags rudden off three or fower mile.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian rīda to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, to travel in a vehicle (West Frisian ride also ‘to transport (goods) by vehicle’, ‘to direct the movement of (a vehicle)’, ‘(of a ship) to lie or float at anchor’), Middle Dutch rīden , rijden to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, to go on a warlike expedition, to travel in a vehicle, (of an animal) to have sexual intercourse (Dutch rijden also ‘to direct the movement of (a vehicle)’, ‘to convey (goods or people) in a vehicle’, ‘(of a ship) to lie or float at anchor’, (now coarse slang) ‘to have sexual intercourse with’), Old Saxon rīdan (only in the compound umbirīdan to travel around on horseback; Middle Low German rīden to travel, to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, to travel in a vehicle, to go on a warlike expedition, to sit as if on horseback, to have sexual intercourse with, (of a ship) to drift in the water, to lie or float at anchor), Old High German rītan to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, to travel, to move (Middle High German rīten also ‘to travel in a vehicle’, ‘to direct the movement of (a vehicle)’, ‘to go on a warlike expedition’, ‘(of an animal or a person) to have sexual intercourse with’, German reiten formerly also ‘(of a ship) to ride at anchor’; in modern German, reiten is now regional (Switzerland) in the general sense ‘to travel’, this sense being expressed by fahren fare v.1 in the standard language), Old Icelandic ríða to travel, to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, Norn (Shetland) ria to travel on horseback, Old Swedish riþa to travel, to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback (Swedish rida also ‘(of a ship) to lie or float at anchor’), Old Danish rithæ to travel, to sit on and direct (a horse or other animal), to travel on horseback, (of a ship) to lie or float at anchor (Danish ride also ‘(of an animal or (now coarse slang) a person) to have sexual intercourse with’) < the same Indo-European base as Gaulish rēda kind of vehicle, Early Irish ríad journey.In Old English a strong verb of Class I. The past tense plural forms reodan , riodan (only in poetry; see Forms 2b) reflect Anglian back mutation before a dental consonant. The forms at Forms 2aα and 2aβ reflect the Old English forms of the 1st and 3rd singular past indicative, later extended to other persons and numbers (compare quots. c13302, a1400, 1487 at α. forms, 1415, a1470 at β. forms). The forms at Forms 2bα reflect the Old English forms of the plural past indicative. The forms at Forms 2bβ probably partly reflect the Old English forms of the plural past indicative with loss of the final -n of the plural ending (compare quots. a1375, c14001 at β. forms), and perhaps partly show extension of these forms to the singular, although such forms may also show extension of the past participial stem to the past indicative, or may perhaps result from analogy with weak past tense forms of other verbs which show shortening of the vowel before a double consonant such as hid , past tense of hide v.1 (compare similar forms at abide v.). The forms at Forms 3α and 3β reflect the Old English forms of the past participle, in the case of 3β with loss of the ending. The forms at Forms 3γ show extension of past tense forms to the past participle. The stem vowel of the form at Forms 3δ is of uncertain origin. Compare ( < forms in Germanic languages) Anglo-Norman rider ‘(of a ship) to float on the water’ (second half of the 12th cent.), Old French rider , Middle French rider , ryder to travel on horseback, to gallop (early 14th cent.), to slide (14th cent.; in modern use in specific senses ‘to track a quarry’ (1655) and (regional: Walloon) ‘to slide on ice’). In South African use in sense 8 after Dutch rijden (Afrikaans ry) in its specific sense ‘to transport, convey (a person or thing)’ (1629). With sense 5c perhaps compare rede v.2 4, redd v.2 3, and to rid (the) marches at rid v. Phrases 4. In Old English the prefixed form gerīdan to ride, to traverse by riding, to obtain by riding (compare y- prefix) is also attested; compare also arīdan to ride (compare a- prefix1), berīdan beride v., forrīdan to intercept by riding (compare for- prefix2), ofrīdan ofride v., oferrīdan override v., oþrīdan to ride up (compare oth prep.), ūtrīdan outride v.
I. To be or go on horseback or in a vehicle, and related senses.
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a. intransitive. To sit on and direct the movement of a horse or other animal, or (in later use) a bicycle, motorcycle, etc.; to move about, make one's way, or travel on horseback, by bicycle, etc.Frequently with on, upon, †of, the horse, etc., and with prepositional or adverbial complement, as at, against, over, to; away, forth, on, out, up, etc.
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society > travel > transport > [verb (intransitive)] > be conveyed on animal or vehicle (of person)
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)]
rideeOE
prig1567
equitate1708
prick1808
equestrianize1887
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xx. 246 He sona ongon..byrig & lond..þurhferan, nales ridende on horse ac þara apostola þeawe on his fotum gongende.
OE Beowulf (2008) 1893 No he mid hearme..gæs[tas] grette, ac him togeanes rad.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 5 Þin cyning..rit uppan tamre assene.
?a1160 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1137 Gif twa men oþer iii coman ridend to an tun, al þe tunscipe flugæn for heom, wenden ðat hi wæron ræueres.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6966 Þatt follc rideþþ onn an der Þatt iss dromeluss nemmnedd.
a1275 Body & Soul (Trin. Cambr. B.14.39) l. 126 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 143 Vi nal huic man im bi þenche, ar he for sal ride, Vat he is, and þon he com, and vat im sal bi tide.
?a1300 Maximian (Digby) l. 244 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 100 (MED) Wer riit þe mon Þat heiȝte maximion?
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3953 Ðus rideð forð ðis man for-loren.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1548 (MED) Alday þai riden & noȝt ne aliȝt.
1415 in 43rd Ann. Rep. Deputy Keeper Public Rec. (1882) App. i. 587 in Parl. Papers (C. 3425) XXXVI. 1 Ye Erle of Cambrege and I in ye Devels nome Roden to ye Hamull in ye Hoke.
a1450 Generides (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) 4114 (MED) Wottest thou euer what knight is yon That rideth of Gwynanes stede?
c1450 (a1400) Libeaus Desconus (Calig. A.ii) (1969) l. 277 (MED) Forþ þey ryden all þre.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 516 Here may a man preve, be he never so good, yet may he have a falle..he rydyth well that never felle.
1553 T. Wilson Arte Rhetorique (1562) 72 And so ridde awaie, as faste as his horse could cary him.
a1599 E. Spenser Canto Mutabilitie vii. xliii, in Faerie Queene (1609) sig. Ii2v Lastly, came cold February, sitting In an old wagon, for he could not ride.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 240 We..rode over the place of burial of the Turks.
1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 124 He carelessly rid along to view the Country.
1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 181 The Aldermen in Person, and on Horseback frequently rid to such Houses.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 251 And, when he next doth ride abroad, May I be there to see!
1825 W. Scott Talisman i, in Tales Crusaders III. 6 The long steel-headed lance,..which, as he rode, projected backwards.
1850 W. Howitt Year-bk. of Country ix. 310 He was relating the story of the Englishman who rode through England, Scotland, and France, on a velocipede.
1896 Argosy Feb. 410/2 The one legged Kilpatrick preparatory to riding down a high and steep flight of steps on a bicycle.
?1923 D. A. Mackenzie Myths China & Japan x. 152 A woman riding on a dragon.
1964 J. Thompson Pop. 1280 ix. 44 He jumped on his mare and rode away, heeling her so hard in the flanks that she screamed with pain.
2000 Book Nov.–Dec. 25/1 We rode on Icelandic ponies and snowbikes.
b. intransitive. In past participle with is, was, etc. Now archaic and rare.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 9727 Alle heo beoð fæie þat hider beoð iridenen.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. 2859 (MED) This Consul..was into the feldes ride.
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 1503 He on a Courser..Is riden in to the feldes hym to pleye.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) v. 1586 (MED) False Egistus was y-riden oute To gadre men and to ben awreke.
1461 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 520 My brother is redyn to Yarmowth.
a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 174 (MED) Hit bifel a cas, þat hir husbonde was I-Redden to his contre.
1585 in H. Paton Rep. Laing MSS (1914) I. 52 I am ryddin to wesye him.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. iii. 2 The King himselfe is rode to view their Battaile. View more context for this quotation
1633 J. Ford Loves Sacrifice ii. sig. E2v Now when the Duke is rid abroad.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxiii. 308 My Brother..and Mr. H. are all rid out together.
1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 92 One of the gentlemen is rid off for a surgeon.
1778 F. Burney Evelina III. ii. 16 Is he rode out this morning?
a1909 A. C. Swinburne Compl. Wks. (1925) III. 339 For my father is ridden to Wearyland, I doubt he'll never win back.
c. intransitive. figurative. Cf. also to ride off into the sunset at sunset n. 1b.
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c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. iii. 184 Ich, my-self, cyuyle, and symonye..Wollen ryden vp-on rectours.
?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Bv I hate this wayes..Were I as you I wolde ryde them full nere.
1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. 156 Ye Ministeris in Scotland ryd als neir thame [sc. the Anabaptists] as ye may.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 216 Riding on quite through the Alphabet.
a1771 T. Gray Fragm. Hymn to Ignorance 176 in Poems (1775) ii She [sc. Ignorance] rode triumphant o'er the vanquish'd world.
1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw xxii A young guardsman, who had just rode into her heart.
1869 T. Hughes Alfred the Great 160 A desire to ride off on side issues.
1909 J. Mackay Land of Morning 69 October will ride to the gates of the day, With the bluebells ringing on her maiden way.
1962 Listener 15 Mar. 459/2 There is room..to ride off astride the theory that justice should not be contaminated by politics.
2007 M. Kahl Touchstone ii. 24 This thing—your offer—rode through my mind all night.
d. intransitive. To sit on and manage a horse properly.
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1556 P. Hoby Let. 1 July in J. W. Burgon Life & Times Sir T. Gresham (1839) I. App. xx. 483 Peradventure my Lady..cannot ride. Therto will I provide this remedy,—to sende her my coche.
1564 W. Bullein Dialogue against Fever Pestilence f. 20v Sir, he nedeth no teachyng, he can ride well I warrant you.
1615 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Cupids Revenge ii. sig. E2v Ride? Doft thou thinke I cannot ride?
1737 tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Amusemens de Spa I. 166 Persons that can't ride like 'em [sc. carriages] well enough; but for my Part I detest 'em, and would much rather chuse to walk.
1881 M. E. Braddon Asphodel I. 167 He can stick in his saddle somehow,..but he can't ride.
1926 J. Buchan Dancing Floor i. vi She rides well, but her manners are atrocious.
1997 L. Brill John Huston's Filmmaking ix. 160 Weldon rides badly—falling during a simple jump, failing to control Firebird.
e. intransitive. To serve in a cavalry regiment. Frequently with in. historical in later use.
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society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] > serve in cavalry
ride1617
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. i. i. 49 Euery man must needes be in danger, and they most who ride in the best troope.
1650 I. Bromwich Spoiles of Forrest of Deane 5 One of his Brothers vouchsafing to ride in the Life-Guard.
1711 R. Steele Spectator 152 ⁋3 I remember two young Fellows who rid in the same Squadron of a Troop of Horse.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Ride, He rode private, i.e. was a private trooper.
1806 M. Noble Biogr. Hist. Eng. III. 314 Wishing to have a commission he rode as a private in the guards.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. ix. 516 The military ardour which he had felt twenty-eight years before, when he rode in the Life Guards.
1932 L. Lewis Sherman ii. xlii. 436 One company of white Alabama Unionists rode in the cavalry.
1976 R. Lewin Slim i. 6 He contrived to fulfil his boyhood ambition by riding as a trooper in the Hussars.
f. intransitive. Of a person: to weigh a specified amount when mounted on a horse.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > engage in horse racing [verb (intransitive)] > be weighed > weigh mounted
ride1701
to ride a feather1823
1701 J. Collier tr. Marcus Aurelius Conversat. with Himself vi. xlix.105 You are not Angry because you weigh so light in the Scale; and don't Ride Forty Stone.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. vi. 113 He was one of the most active Spirits in Newmarket, and always boasted as a most singular Accomplishment, that he did not ride above eight Stone and a Half.
1836 G. Stephen Adventures in Search of Horse (ed. 2) i Be it known, then, that I ride rather more than twelve stone.
1857 G. A. Lawrence Guy Livingstone iii He rode little under fourteen stone.
1907 Cornhill Mag. Jan. 113 His pony was fagged, and he rode quite four stone heavier than the man he was after.
1957 Times 19 Sept. 14/3 Even when his weight was becoming a distinct handicap he still had the priceless gift of ‘riding a couple of stone lighter than his weight’.
2005 W. Vamplew & J. Kay Encycl. Brit. Horseracing 338 Steve Cauthen, who rode a stone under his natural weight, exhibited bulimic behaviour.
2.
a. intransitive. To go on horseback on a warlike expedition; to go on, or take part in, a raid or foray, esp. in the Scottish Borders in the 16th and 17th centuries. Also: to go on horseback into battle. Now archaic or historical.
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society > armed hostility > attack > raid > [verb (intransitive)]
rideOE
skeckc1330
reisea1387
skicka1400
road1600
razzia1846
raid1848
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.i) anno 1001 Hi ðær mycel wæll ofslogan & ridon þa ofer þæt land..& mid him ða micle herehuðe to scipon brohton.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 5844 Heo riden ȝeond þæn leode & nomen þer muchele prude.
c1330 Sir Degare (Auch.) 100 in W. H. French & C. B. Hale Middle Eng. Metrical Romances (1930) 291 (MED) Iich am comen here a fairi knyȝte; Mi kynde is armes for to were, On horse to ride wiȝ scheld and spere.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Ellesmere) (1868) l. 45 A knyght ther was..That fro the tyme that he first bigan To riden out he loued chiualrie Trouthe and honour.
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 603 Alysaundre..Rood in his conqueste..With al his hooste.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 2583 Þou may haue hit..To ride, ȝyf þat þou wile bygynne.
1523 J. Skelton Goodly Garlande of Laurell 196 Theis people..ryde and rinne from Carlyll to Kente.
1561 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 186 Gif it be thocht expedient..that ony persone..be riddin on and invadit be fyre and swerd.
a1639 Earl of Monmouth Mem. (1759) 119 Not so few as two hundred..that were ever ready to ride with them to all actions.
1802 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. 36 The rapacity of this Clan, and of their allies, the Elliots, occasioned the popular saying, ‘Elliots and Armstrongs ride thieves all’.
1865 A. D. Richardson Secret Service xxiii. 280 I could not believe that he was riding into battle upon such a steed.
1897 E. W. Hamilton Outlaws of Marches i. 7 Others of the Scots rode into England.
1936 E. Rosenthal Old-time Survivals 26 Commandos rode against the Germans in South-West Africa during the Great War.
1997 M. Acton Learning to look at Paintings (2000) i. 12 It shows a member of Napoleon's equestrian guard riding into battle on a fiery horse.
†b. transitive. To cause (cavalry) to advance. Obsolete. rare.
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1711 Fingall MSS in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 160 Ginckle dessigned to ride his cavalry into the breach when made.
3.
a. transitive. To sit on and control the movement of (a horse or other animal); to make one's way or travel on (a horse, etc.).In Old English with dative.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > pursue (one's way) on horseback
rideOE
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > traverse on horseback
overrideeOE
rideOE
perequitate1780
OE Riddle 22 2 Ætsomne cwom lx monna to wægstæþe wicgum ridan.
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 1971 (MED) He is þe beste man at nede, Þat euere mar shal ride stede!
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1188 (MED) A courser that he scholde ryde Into the feld, anon he bad.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 510 (MED) Som tyme a man had ane ass, & he rade hur.
a1500 (?a1425) Ipomedon (Harl.) (1889) l. 1005 (MED) The whyche..Will..many an hors ryde to dede Or I come there þat me most nede.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 230 By his ieoperdyng to ride the vnbroken horse Bucephalus.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 221 The Sarmatians..prepare their horses two daies before,..and thus they will ride them gallop 150 miles an end.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iii. viii. sig. S1v (heading) Upon the taking up his Horses from Grass, and giving them Oats before they were to be Ridden a Journey.
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 341 I never rid a Horse in my life so much at my command.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 362 They are rid generally in a snaffle, without spurs.
1822 J. Hogg Three Perils of Man II. vii. 229 Wha's this stripling that rides the good dun mare.
1857 J. Bowring Kingdom & People of Siam II. xv. 87 In the afternoon I rode an elephant, but found its paces so uncomfortable, that I had rather ridden ten leagues on horseback.
1896 Argosy Feb. 458/1 He could soon handle a lariat and ride a mustang with the best cowboy on the range.
1924 Amer. Mercury Dec. 490/1 I was riding the goat under the auspices of the great Order of Autochthons.
1959 H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker (1965) i. 13 Mr. Jamieson rode a saddle pony for a few miles then got on the wagon with us.
2002 Horse & Rider Sept. 65/2 When I visited Peru last year, I rode a Paso hinny—a Peruvian Paso stallion crossed with a gaited donkey mare.
b. transitive. figurative or in figurative context. Frequently in to ride (a thing or person) hard (also to death).
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c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 177 Þe ilke sari wrecches..beoð þe deofles eaueres þet rit ham & spureð ham to don al þet he wule.
c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) II. 269 This man wil not obey my chargis, quhill he be riddin with ane mollet bridil: nochtheles, I sall gar him draw like ane avir in ane cart.
1580 T. Churchyard Pleasaunte Laborinth: Churchyardes Chance f. 33 Babblyng bookes, hath ridden Rime to death.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 119 Lys. He hath rid his Prologue, like a rough Colte. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 96 Our prayses are our Wages. You may ride' s With one soft Kisse a thousand Furlongs. View more context for this quotation
1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 34 There is a set of Bishops..Will ride the divell off his legs, and break his wind.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical v. 52 When any Humour Takes in London, they Ride it to Death before they leave it.
1799 R. Hill Jrnl. of Tour North of Eng. & Scotl. 120 Happy should I be to ride upon the back of such order and decorum, till I had ridden them to death.
1804 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 111 Mr. Hiley Addington rode him hard with fulsome eulogiums.
1887 Spectator 9 Apr. 491/2 The dangers of such a method when ridden to death by inferior imitators.
1906 H. James in N. Amer. Rev. Aug. 255 He is already astride of his happier thesis, seated firm..and riding it as hard as it will go.
1949 V. S. Reid New Day i. xviii. 94 Manuel stands tall by the door, seriousness riding his face.
1984 K. Amis Stanley & Women i. 13 I put it down as another of the vague phrases he..picked up out of nowhere, rode to death for a few months..and forgot.
2008 K. Steadman Bipolar Expeditionist 243 The will to die finally secured its ticket to ride my mind.
c. transitive. To sit on and control (a moving bicycle, motorcycle, etc.); to travel on (a bicycle, etc.).
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society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (transitive)]
ride1819
1819 London Lit. Gaz. 24 July 478/3 Sir Onesiphorus..studies all kinds of gentleman-like accomplishments, such as dancing, fencing, boxing, riding the velocipede, &c.
1869 Galaxy Apr. 592 Schools for teaching the art of riding the bicycle have been established already by the score.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 8/1 Female teachers who have been riding bicycles in male attire, commonly called bloomers.
1908 Los Angeles Times 10 Sept. i. 7/1 He shot away at as fast a clip as a man ever rode a motorcycle on the track.
1970 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 19 July 26/3 These trail bikes are definitely not road bikes when it comes to riding them on highways where traffic moves very fast.
2001 B. Hatch Internat. Gooseberry 8 We went around in canary-yellow Leeds away kits; we learned how to ride bikes without stabilizers.
d. transitive. Horse Racing. To urge (a horse) to excessive speed. Also intransitive.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > ride horse in race [verb (transitive)] > actions of rider
bore1677
jostle1723
pinch1740
pull1781
rope1854
screw1855
corner1861
ride1863
ready1887
poach1891
nurse1893
to ask (a horse) the question1894
stiffen1900
shoo1908
rate1946
stop1954
niggle1963
1863 Sat. Rev. 23 May 657 When Fordham had charge of Buckstone in the St. Leger, it was said that he began to ‘ride’ his horse too soon.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 July 5/2 He will pretend to be ‘riding’ (that is squeezing) his horse.
1987 Horse & Hound 26 Mar. 17/1 It was only in front, for the last half furlong, that Richard Dunwoody had to ride.
2003 N. Mordin Betting for Living (rev. ed.) viii. 96 Girl of Pleasure held up in rear, headway to track leaders 3 out, soon ridden and weakened, tailed off.
4.
a. intransitive. To travel or be conveyed in a vehicle; (also) spec. (in later use) to travel as a passenger in a public transport vehicle. Usually with in, on. Cf. ride n.2 2b.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)]
rideeOE
tool1835
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) ii. iv. 42 Þonne hie hamweard foran, þonne sceoldon hiera senatus ridan on crætwænum.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. iv. 27 (MED) Bote on a wayn, wyd [read witti] and wisdame I-feere Folweden hem..And Riden faste.
?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 159 (MED) And ell he rytt in a charett with iiij wheles.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 1127 Se, madam..where rydys in a charyot a goodly armed knyght, and we suppose he rydyth unto hangynge.
a1500 (?a1390) J. Mirk Festial (Gough) (1905) 37 (MED) Þis Emperour com rydyng in a chare þedyr.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. ccxxxviiiv Her Grace..alyghted out of her Chariot in the whych she had rydden all her long iourney.
1637 J. Milton Comus 6 Stay thy clowdie Ebon chaire, Wherein thou rid'st with Hecat', and befriend Vs thy vow'd Priests.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 13 Feb. (1974) VIII. 60 I rid with my sword drawn in the Coach.
1746 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 132 The Duke has given Brigadier Mordaunt the Pretender's coach, on condition he rode up to London in it.
1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella IV. 165 I am going to send the coach to town.., and..you may ride in it.
1810 Splendid Follies II. 19 I never rode with such a disagreeable driver in my life.
1844 S. R. Maitland Dark Ages 307 Gerard..always rode in a carriage, reading his own books.
a1887 H. W. Beecher in S. Scoville & W. C. Beecher Biogr. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1888) 216 I arrived in Madison, not overproud in the glory of riding on the first train that ever went from Indianapolis to Madison.
1925 Amer. Mercury Aug. 478/1 He rides about in a limousine driven by a high-priced Japanese.
1968 Black Belt May 10/1 Manevale claimed that he was being robbed while riding on a bus.
2003 Yours Oct. 157/1 We rode in the car without a seat belt and fought over who was going to sit in the front passenger seat.
b. intransitive. To be carried about or paraded (on or †in a cart, hurdle, rail, etc.) as a punishment. Cf. to ride a person on a rail at rail n.2 Phrases 5. Now historical.
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society > authority > punishment > public or popular punishments > [verb (intransitive)] > be carried in cart
ride1552
1552 H. Machyn Diary (1848) 27 The xxj day of Desember rod to Tyborne to be hangyd for a robery..iij talmen and a lake.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 70 A tayler of Fletstret & hys syster rydde in a carte abowte London..for avouttre.
a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) iii. i. 57 I'le hang you both you rascalls, I can but ride.
a1816 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal (rev. ed.) ii. i, in Wks. (1821) II. 41 Ah! many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief.
1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 194 Riding on a rail..is a savage punishment inflicted by an excited crowd upon a person who has exasperated a community by some real or fancied outrage.
1899 W. Raymond Tangled Web ii. ii. 177 Ho! ho! We shall live to see the huzzy ride on a hurdle.
1925 J. W. Wickwar Witchcraft & Black Art 95 This fate of riding on a hurdle drawn at a horse's tail was also..meted out to the bakers..if they gave short weight.
c. intransitive. Mining. To ascend or descend a mineshaft in a cage or on a platform.
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society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > other specific activities in mining
trench1786
rob1811
tamp1819
ride1854
slab1871
society > occupation and work > industry > mining > mine [verb (intransitive)] > other specific activities in mining > in coal-mining
trap1842
ride1854
overwind1858
sump1910
1854 Chambers's Repository 2 17 It is a part of the duty, however, of one of the principal overlookers, to examine the chain minutely before the first men ‘ride’.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Ride, to be in a cage or bowk whilst descending or ascending a pit-shaft.
1914 Southwestern Reporter 166 877/2 The contention of the plaintiff is that he rode in safety until after the cage had passed the ring set..and that his fall was caused by the sudden dumping of the floor.
1920 Safety Mar.–Apr. 34 The cage, or deck, where men ride should always be enclosed at the sides and back.
1998 E. Jameson All that Glitters iii. 73 The rest of the miners refused to ride down in the cage with him.
d. intransitive. To ascend or descend by means of a lift or escalator; to travel up (also down) in this way. Usually with in, on. Cf. sense 11b.
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1858 Hartford (Connecticut) Daily Courant 14 Jan. 2/1 Albert Lucy..was riding down on the elevator, from the mule room.
1869 Herald of Health Apr. 161/1 I rode in the elevator to my floor.
1918 Asia 18 168/3 The child-like delight of the Japanese country visitors riding on the escalator.
1967 W. Pine Protectors xi. 91 The two men rode up from the basement to the twenty-first floor by express lift.
2006 O. Nasiri Inside Jihad 254 As we rode up together in the lift, he spoke to me.
5.
a. transitive. To cover or traverse (a certain distance) on horseback or, in later use, by bicycle, etc.; (also) to make (a journey or expedition) on horseback, etc. Also in to ride a race (also circuit, course, etc.).
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OE Ælfric Lives of Saints (Julius) (1900) II. 160 Ac [hi] ridon ofer twelf mila to Rodan þæra ea.
lOE Laws of Æðelstan (Rochester) vi. v. 176 Man ne forlæte nane æscan.., ær ælc man hæbbe ane rade geriden þe hors habbe.
c1300 St. Edward Elder (Laud) l. 80 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 49 (MED) He ne rod bote wel luyte wei are he feol to grounde.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Tale (Ellesmere) (1875) G. §3. l. 555 Er we hadde riden fully fyue Mile At Boghtoun vnder Blee vs gan atake A man.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 506 Gawan hase my rawunsun made For a course þat he rode, And felle him in þe fild brode.
a1500 (a1450) Generides (Trin. Cambr.) 5098 So furth he gothe in to the feld anon, And rode a course onto kyng lamedon.
1599 in T. Fowler Hist. Corpus Christi Coll. (1893) 352 The Fellows whom the rest appoint for the time to ride the circuit with the President.
1617 Sir E. Mountagu in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 251 My brother..rid in two days a hundred miles.
1666 in Juridical Rev. (1912–13) 24 15 I had ridine with them a milne or more.
a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) i. 16 But were you to see him on the turf, at Newmarket,..Why, he has rid matches.
1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 115 He rides a race! 'Tis for a thousand pound!
1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxiii. 45 We can neither hunt, nor ride A foray on the Scottish side.
1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 152 These poor wretches, who have to ride three or four hundred miles on end without stoppage of more than two hours.
1880 A. Forbes Glimpses through Cannon-smoke 176 He would ride that distance any day to spend an hour or two in a house brightened by the presence of womanhood.
1926 Rifle Brigade Chron. for 1925 94 Buxton, who rode a well-judged race, came with a rattle and won the most popular victory of the day.
1986 J. McPhee Rising from Plains 109 When the boys were teen-aged, they occasionally saddled up and rode twenty-six miles to dances in Shoshoni.
2008 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 May d1/4 Riding 100 miles on a bike..isn't actually as difficult as it would seem.
b. transitive. To travel on horseback along, through, or over (a road, stretch of land, etc.). Also figurative.
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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 878 Her hiene bestęl se here on midne winter..to Cippanhamme & geridon Wesseaxna lond & gesæton.]
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. iv. 42 (MED) Þanne resoun rode faste þe riȝte heiȝe gate.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 52 (MED) Whene he thys rewmes hade redyn & rewlyde the pople, Then rystede that ryall and helde þe rounde tabyll.
1464 J. Gresham in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 295 It is seid þat the Kyng wole ride Sussexe, Kent, Essexe, Suffolk, and Norffolk, and so to the parlement.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 181 The duke rode the fronters of Galyce.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A8 The Lord high Admirall, Riding the streetes was traiterously shot.
1648 Lanc. Tracts Civil War (Chetham Soc.) 263 Twelve miles of such ground as I never rod in all my life.
1706 E. Baynard Hot & Cold Baths in J. Floyer Hist. Cold Bathing (ed. 2) ii. 190 I rode, quoth he, the cold Hills every Morning.
1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 30 In riding the road, observe [etc.].
1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 83 May the sweet Heavens hear thee plead, If he rides the castle-wall.
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iv. 309 Three days they ride that country.
1900 Acad. 13 Jan. 27/1 No longer, in compact ranks, do they ride the fields of literature, and bear down all before them.
1937 J. F. Dobie in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 23 The cattle were hardly worth driving off, but the Skinning War was fought against men who rode the range killing them in order to peel their hides.
1975 W. Anderson Wild Man of Sugar Creek (1977) iii. 27 Up before dawn, he would ride the country roads, greeting farmers as they moved out into their fields.
2005 L. Berzok Amer. Indian Food i. 30 It became government policy to destroy the bison herd to ensure that the Indians would not ride the Plains.
c. transitive. To traverse on horseback in order to revive knowledge of or confirm (a boundary, etc.). Also (esp. in later use): to patrol (a fence, boundary, or the area within), usually on horseback, in order to carry out maintenance or an inspection (chiefly Australian, New Zealand, and U.S.). Also figurative.In quot. 1877: to inspect (a drain).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > traverse on horseback > a boundary, to maintain it
ride1455
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > form continuous boundary [verb (intransitive)] > determine boundary
ride1455
to rid (the) marches1466
to redd the marchesa1500
butt1523
to beat the bounds1570
to run the line or lines1639
procession1724
OE Agreement between Bp. Wærferð & Æðelwold (Sawyer 1441) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 25 Eðelwald heht his geneat..ridan mid Ceastersetna preoste..& he hine þa gelædde all ða gemæru... Þus se Ceastersetna preost hit gerad.]
1455 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 285 (MED) The Mayre and the Baylyffes and comynes schold ryd the franches of the sayd cytte..aftyr feste of Trynyte Sunday.
1476 in C. Rogers Rental Bk. Cupar-Angus (1879) I. 204 He sal kep and defend our marchis as tha war redyng at the last ridyng.
a1525 Cov. Leet-bk. 33 Hit is ordenyd that the fraunches of this Cite be Ryden this yere within the monyth of May.
1572 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 341 The francheses of this Cytie shalbe ryd according to auncient custom.
1685 A. Skene Memorialls Royall-burghs Scotl. xxv. 155 Ye are with the rest of your Neighbours of the Town once every year to ryde your Land-Marches.
1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity iv. 89 To ride the Marches between Good and Evil.
1798 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XX. 441 It is customary to ride the marches, occasionally, so as to preserve in the memory of the people the limits of their property.
1816 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 316 The day on which the Liberties were rode.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. (at cited word) The surveyor of the court of sewers is said to ride the drains when he goes to overlook them.
1929 ‘Old Stockman’ Sensational Cattle-Stealing Case 7/1 I have ridden the boundary wires with you.
1969 L. W. McCaskill Molesworth 181 From then on they rode boundary, hundreds of miles of it, to ensure that the Molesworth cattle stayed on Molesworth.
2004 R. Lundy Index i. 2 Adam..rode the fence line in the far south west corner of the ranch.
d. transitive. To ford or cross (a stream, river, etc.) on horseback. Also figurative in to ride the water on (also with): to trust or rely on (English regional (northern) and Scottish).
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > traverse on horseback > specific water
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c1536 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hist. & Chron. Scotl. (1821) II. 176 This watter..micht not be riddin.
?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1117 in Shorter Poems (1967) 72 We raid the swyft reuere Sparthiades.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 236 Thay..culd not ryd the water, being great.
a1656 R. Gordon Geneal. Hist. Earldom of Sutherland (1813) 338 Haveing..interprysed to ryd that water on horsback.
1701 Chrons. Atholl & Tullabardine Families I. 489 All of them having rode a watter except De Tang, a Frenchman.
1774 D. Jones Jrnl. (1865) 18 Several ferries are kept on it, tho' it may frequently be rode in the summer season.
1790 W. Scott Let. 6 Aug. (1932) I. 12 The servant was waiting there with our horses, as we were to ride the water.
1824 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. May 559/2 His honour is not always sufficiently stable to ride the water on.
1896 E. Durh. Gloss. He's not safe to ride the water with.
1928 J. Buchan Montrose iv. 119 The very ford which Scott makes Marmion ride on the eve of Flodden.
1960 W. Harris Palace of Peacock vii. 74 To turn back now and ride the stream was to be swept so swiftly and unpredictably along we were bound to crash.
2007 R. H. Henry Bowden's South Pass Justice xix. 278 It looks like they don't want anyone else to know either or they wouldn't have rode the stream to cover their tracks.
6.
a. transitive. To proceed upon or pursue (one's way, etc.) on horseback or (in later use) by bicycle, etc. Also figurative.In Old English with genitive.
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OE Acct. Voy. Ohthere & Wulfstan in tr. Orosius Hist. (Tiber.) (1980) i. i. 17 Þonne rideð ælc hys weges mid ðan feo.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 1562 (MED) Ryd thanne forth thi wey.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 11427 (MED) Þir kinges rides forth þair rade.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 856 With that word we ryden forth oure weye.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 21 Ulphuns and Brastias bare the two knyghtes oute of their sadils to the erth and so leffte them lyynge and rode their wayes.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin 202 (MED) Thei rode so her iournes till thei com to Tarsaide.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxxv. 184 I..made me ready for to ride my waye.
1575 in W. Fraser Memorials Family Wemyss (1888) III. 74 He menis..to ryid furtht his hee way to the ferrey.
1642 H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 83 He rode up..and shot a townsman on ye neck.., and so rid his ways.
1780 E. Jones Relation of Apparitions of Spirits 27 He was at the great Thorn, having rode his way backward.
1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. ix. 235 Let them ride their way..and find their sport.
1882 C. F. Keary Outl. Primitive Belief viii. 393 Helgi rode his way, and the women went home.
1916 A. L. Benson Inviting War to Amer. v. 107 Theodore Roosevelt is trying to ride his way back into the White House upon a tidal wave of popular fear.
1959 R. Dubos Miracle of Health viii. 215 The soldier of past wars who marched or rode his way to victory through physical and mental stamina.
1984 Amer. Motorcyclist May 31 You could ride your way to a national title.
2004 R. W. Rogers Uncertain Times ix. 112 The string of riders headed out and..they eventually rode their way up a slight rise.
b. intransitive. To go in procession on horseback. Chiefly Scottish and historical in later use. Now rare.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > ride in procession or company
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (intransitive)] > go on parade or procession
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procession1706
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a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 20 He wes an-honge Al quic byheueded... Þe heued to londone brugge wes send... He rideþ þourh þe site, as y telle may..To londone brugge hee nome þe way.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 1841 (MED) Every wiht was sore alonged To se this lusti ladi ryde.
1496 in Hist. MSS Comm.: Rep. MSS Var. Coll. (1907) IV. 212 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 3218) LXIV. 1 All they of the xxiiij that hath be maire shall ride in scarlett ayenste the Kynge.
1530 in Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. (1907) IV. 216 Mr. Mayer and all his brethren shall ride on Seynt Osmundy's evyn..in maner folowyng.
1606 Sc. Acts Parl. (1814) IV. 279 The haill Estaittis of Parliament will convene and ryd with thair honouris with crowne, sword, and sceptour.
1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow) 223 At Perth the Parliament did not ryde.
1703 in A. W. C. Hallen Acct. Bk. Sir J. Foulis (1894) 323 Seeing the parliament ryde out of the forstair.
1749 W. Crookshank Hist. Church Scotl. I. vii. 241 Our Bishops..sit and ride in Parliament, and judge in worldly affairs.
1840 J. H. Jesse Mem. Court Eng. Reign of Stuarts I. vii. 98 Even the peers were accustomed to ride to Parliament in their robes.
1875 tr. L. von Ranke Hist. Eng. II. vi. v. 76 The bishops..arrayed in silk and velvet, rode to Parliament in the midst of the nobility with all the old ecclesiastical pomp.
1908 J. K. Hewison Covenanters I. vii. 195 On 17th June the King and the Estates, with all the honours, rode from Holyrood to the Tolbooth to meet in Parliament.
c. transitive. Scottish and English regional (northern). To open (parliament, a fair) with a procession. Now historical.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > initiating or causing to begin > initiate [verb (transitive)] > inaugurate > with a procession
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [verb (transitive)] > go through in procession > open by procession
ride1604
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 13 Vpoun the xvj day of Maij (1529), thair was ane greit conventione..and raid all the Parliament to the tolbuith.]
1604 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. VII. 2 Act ordaining the Estates to attend the Earle of Montrose, Commissioner, for ryding the Parliament.
c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 40 The Parliament wes riddin agane to the King, and his thrie estaitis.
1701 in W. S. Cooper Charters Royal Burgh Ayr (1883) 74 With full power to them to cause proclaime and ryde the said one fair yearly.
1755 R. Keith Large New Catal. Bishops Scotl. 158 He did not long enjoy his new Office; for he sickened the very Day of riding the Parliament in November 1663.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 1655 A procession moves from the principal alehouse for the purpose of riding the fair, as they call it.
1876 Trans. Hawick Archaeol. Soc. 9/2 The authorities of Jedburgh continue to ride the fair, though in a less formidable way than they used to do in olden times.
1935 Times 3 Apr. 16/2 Sir William carried on the..tradition of proclaiming the yearly opening of the ancient Yarm fair with the picturesque stage coach ritual of riding the fair.
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a. intransitive. Of a horse, etc.: to admit of being ridden, esp. in a specified way; to carry a rider.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being ridden
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (intransitive)] > carry rider
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1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) ii. vi. sig. cviiiv Thenne he..was ware of a damoysel that came ryde ful fast as the hors myghte ryde.
1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. O 3 The horse whose back the tamer oft bestrides, At length with easie pace full gently rides.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vi. 298 The Dromidory..will ride aboue 80. miles in the day.
1692 London Gaz. No. 2792/4 A Chestnut Gelding,..rideth gracefully, paceth a little.
1714 London Gaz. No. 5195/4 Commonly Rides with her Tongue out of her Mouth.
1805 in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1806) 9 352 Can you get me a nag That will ride very quiet?
1857 Times 22 Jan. 2/1 (advt.) A perfect brougham or phaeton horse, rides well.
1897 Folk-lore 8 302 He goes to his mother's grave, and she gives him a horse that rides over sea and land.
1912 Harper's Mag. Sept. 627/1 The horse rides very fast.
1977 H. B. Segel tr. J. Słowacki Fantazy iii. viii, in Polish Romantic Drama 288 I am asking you if the horse rides well.
†b. intransitive. Scottish. Of a stretch of water: to allow of crossing on horseback. Obsolete.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being ridden across
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1784 in G. Caw Poet. Museum 150 Honest man, will the water ride?
1891 E. Hamilton Outlaws 214 The water wudna ride till weel abune Westerkirk.
c. intransitive. Of land: to be of a specified character for riding on; to bear riding on.
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the world > the earth > land > ground > [verb (intransitive)] > be in condition for movement
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tread loose1847
1835 New Sporting Mag. Feb. 233 We have always hated the sight of a five year old horse in our hunting stable, although we have been occasionally well carried by them in the spring of the year, when the ground rides light.
1864 M. J. Higgins Ess. (1875) 200 Its soil..rode quite as clean and sound as the Nottinghamshire dukeries ride.
1889 M. Crommelin & J. M. Brown Violet Vyvian III. xii. 207 Rain..made the ground ride soft.
1931 Daily Express 21 Sept. 15/4 The course rode dead, and was not in favour of weight-carrying.
1974 Country Life 3 Oct. 925/3 While there were refusals in plenty, most of them due to rider-failure, the course rode well.
1991 Today 31 Oct. 38/5 The dirt track..rides what Cauthen describes as ‘cuppy’ after the rain has freshened it.
d. intransitive. Of a vehicle, esp. a motor car: to admit of being driven or operated, in respect of smoothness, passenger comfort, etc. Cf. ride n.2 8a.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > movement of vehicles > move or go along [verb (intransitive)] > have characteristic motion
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1877 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. 103 382 The car is equalized on rubber springs with cross equalizing beams, and rides smoothly, without any shaking or rough motion from the operation of its machinery.
1921 J. A. Moyer Gasoline Automobiles 220 An automobile often rides smoothly on roads with good surfaces, yet when driven over rough roads at moderately high or high speeds it jounces the occupants around badly.
1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 An old, broken-down automobile, particularly one that rides rough.
2002 Pop. Mech. Dec. 140/3 We found the Saturn to be fun on the street. lt rides nicely, too.
8. transitive. Chiefly U.S. and South African. To convey or transport in a vehicle.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)]
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1687 in J. Munsell Ann. Albany (1850) II. 97 It is very requisite that there be fyre-wood rid to ye indian houses.
1692 in J. Munsell Ann. Albany (1850) II. 121 Ye sheriffe..is required to see each trader ride a load of wood to the said house.
1777 W. McKendry Jrnl. 23 Dec. in Proc. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. (1886) 2 443 Recd. two Waggoners to Ride wood for Col. Alden's Reg.
1837 S. R. Maitland Voluntary Syst. 287 If he is a rich man, he may ride his family away, every Sunday.
1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (at cited word) I heard a witness..testify that he had ‘rode some hogs from the wharf to the store’, by which he meant that he carried a load of dead hogs on his cart.
1862 Abstracts in Statute Law Cape of Good Hope p. vi Prohibition against overworking cattle in riding wood, and thus rendering them unfit for the plough.
1867 T. F. De Voe Market Assistant 420 I have known instances where young calves have been taken from the cow in the morning, rode some fifteen or twenty miles through a hot sun to the market-boats or railroad station, then through the night brought on to the city.
1897 E. Glanville Tales from Veld 26 I want you to ‘ride’ a load of wood to the house.
1932 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1956) xiii. 183 I once hear Dave the Dude offer Feet Samuels a job riding them between here and Philly at good wages.
1977 I. Shaw Beggarman, Thief ii. iii. 149 I'll ride you over to the YMCA.
1979 M. Parkes Wheatlands 84 The prickly pear was an asset and very useful, not only to us, as neighbours rode loads of it to feed their animals.
2006 J. Anthony Relig. is Fiction (2007) xl. 205 He..flagged for a taxi driver who rode him through the wide 4th Street, into Livingston Avenue.
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a. transitive. To cut (an animal) off from or out of the herd by skilful riding. Now rare.In quot. 1921 in extended use.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > cut out
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to cut out1862
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > outride
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1790 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Gen. Hist. Quadrupeds 27 The horsemen rode off the Bull from the rest of the herd, until he stood at bay.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 253 I have often ridden the best bull out of the herd.
1863 W. C. Baldwin Afr. Hunting 262 I shortly came across another troop of bulls... I rode out one with beautiful long teeth.
1907 A. Hamilton Red Deer of Exmoor vi. 93 It is next door to useless to ride at a deer to turn him away from a line on which he has set his mind, though one has seen a deer ridden off from joining a herd.
1921 R. Hughes Beauty iv. iii. 202 She declared that she was going to marry the first rancher that she could ride out of the herd.
b. transitive. To hunt (an animal) on horseback. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > hunt on horseback or vehicle
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a1852 H. W. Torrens Select. from Writings (1854) II. 287 In windy weather it is idle to ride a pig here unless close upon him.
1889 R. S. S. Baden-Powell Pigsticking 2 It became usual to get up a sweepstake before starting to ride a boar.
1914 E. Bennet Shots & Snapshots vii. 195 When he has been put up, three or four sportsmen ride him down as you ride a pig in India, but the rifle replaces the spear.
c. transitive. Polo. To edge off (an opponent). Also intransitive.
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1886 Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches 2 92 You should have seen him in the pavilion dressing-room afterwards, black and blue all the way down his right side from riding off.
1897 Outing 30 487/1 Play into your comrades' hands, and watch out to edge or ride-off an adversary.
1928 Times 28 June 7/5 He was either poorly supported or well ridden off by Captain Roark in support of his back.
1963 Times 28 Aug. 3/7 Barlow got away from the throw-in, and when he was ridden off the back, Crompton, backing up well, scored again.
2000 Mirror (Nexis) 11 Jan. (Features section) 6 I was playing polo against my brother and he rode me off. I fell and hit my head.
d. transitive. figurative. To lead (a person) off a subject or away from an idea, etc.; to sidetrack.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > abstaining or refraining from action > abstain or refrain from (action) [verb (transitive)] > avoid or shun > turn aside from > cause to
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1908 A. Chamberlain Politics from Inside 128 We got several of our discussions in before them and ‘rode them off’, to use a racing phrase.
1928 ‘Sapper’ Female of Species x. 161 Look here, Peter—we've got to try and ride them off.
1941 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 3 Dec. in War Diaries (2001) 206 Luckily we succeeded in riding PM off such a suggestion but only at expense of some 500 tanks to be sent to Russia.
1999 G. Walden Lucky George xv. 365 I tried to ride him off the idea of making the polytechnics into universities.
10. intransitive. Also with on, upon.
a. Surfing. To be carried along by or travel on a wave, esp. while on a surfboard. Cf. surf-ride v.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)]
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1874 W. M. Davis Nimrod of Sea xxvi. 310 The surf-board..was placed lengthwise under the breast as they rode on the crest of the wave.
1888 King Kalakaua Legends & Myths of Hawaii 470 Three times they rode in on the waves, while Halaaniani..remained outside among the rollers.
1915 W. D. Westervelt Legends of Gods & Ghosts xii. 68 The first and second waves were hurled back from the shore in a great mass against the wave upon which he was riding.
1966 J. C. Ingle Movement of Beach Sand iii. 88 A surfer can often traverse the entire width of the surf zone..literally riding at a shear zone in the water column.
2001 J. Kellerman Flesh & Blood 298 I looked for a surfboard, didn't see one. ‘You ride, huh?’
b. Skiing and Waterskiing. To travel on skis; to ski or waterski.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > other water sports > engage in other water sports [verb (intransitive)] > water-ski
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ski1947
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1885 C. Siewers tr. S. Tromholt Under Rays of Aurora Borealis I. viii. 136 The Ski are [sic] pointed and slightly curved at one end, and the edges rounded... Down-hill the Lapp generally rides on one of them, which acts as a drag and enables him to steer.
1920 Printers' Ink Monthly 18 Mar. 106/1 The thickness [of the skis] must be tapered from the center both ways to give the flexibility necessary to enable the user to ride over rough spots without losing balance.
1941 Life 4 Aug. 55/2 (caption) Bending her knees like a snow skier, Hallie rides over the wake.
1971 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 16 May 8 d/4 Riding on skis behind fleet range ponies..is a sport enjoyed in Colorado each winter.
2004 M. Firestone Extreme Waterskiing Moves i. 6 Waterskiers begin by riding on two skis.
c. To travel on a skateboard or snowboard; to skateboard or to snowboard.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > skateboarding > skateboard [verb (intransitive)]
ride1965
skateboard1968
1965 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 8 Jan. 9/6 The boy..was riding on his skateboard and pulling his dog by a leash when the skateboard stopped but the dog didn't.
1976 J. Grant Skateboarding 9 When you rode on composition wheels, you controlled and fine-tuned your turns by skidding, so you used to wear down a set of wheels fairly fast.
1989 L. D. Brimner Snowboarding vi. 33 A typical snowboarder rides with his left foot on the front of the board.
1994 Snowboard UK Dec. 72/2 My standard of riding definitely improved, just by riding with and learning from all the other people.
2003 Independent 25 Oct. (Review section) 13/1 He rode across the front porch, ollied (or jumped), over the steps and managed to stay on.
11.
a. transitive. To travel in or on (a train, bus, etc.); to be a passenger on. Also (esp. in earlier use): to travel on the outside of (a train, etc.), frequently without paying a fare (cf. to ride the rods at Phrases 2j(b)). Chiefly U.S.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > travel on (public vehicle) [verb (transitive)]
ride1926
get1943
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > ride on roof or outside of moving vehicle
ride1926
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surf1985
1878 Rep. Comm. Railroad Riots July 1877 (Pennsylvania General Assembly) 122 The majority of them were not railroad men. They didn't appear accustomed to riding trains.
1893 Birmingham (Alabama) State-Herald 16 Oct. 5/3 He was riding the car from the iron yard to the scales and was knocked off.
1926 J. Black You can't Win vii. 80 ‘Let's ride the passenger trains,’ I said.
1941 B. Schulberg What makes Sammy Run? vi. 122 He spent three weeks riding the street cars and the buses and trying to get by the studio reception desks.
1962 A. Shepard in J. Glenn et al. Into Orbit 95 I honestly never felt that I would be the first man to ride the Mercury capsule.
1972 Publishers Weekly 24 Jan. 25 Bill is too young to remember when you could ride the subway for a nickel.
2000 N.Y. Times 6 July a16/2 He began sneaking out at night and riding the trains with black and Latino friends.
b. transitive. To ascend or descend by means of (a lift or escalator). Cf. sense 4d.
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1896 Arizona Republican 22 Aug. 1/1 He had never ridden an elevator excepting to take him into the mines.
1914 Munsey's Mag. May 737/2 In the evening of that day, Corrigan rode the lift up the incline to English Hill.
1986 J. Batten Judges 29 Carruthers rode the elevator to the judges' office on the fourteenth floor.
2005 N.Y. Mag. 16 May 54/4 The store's a bit of a maze. You have to ride three escalators just to buy a toilet brush.
12.
a. transitive. Surfing. To travel on (a surfboard) in the waves; to be carried along by (a wave), esp. while on a surfboard. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf [verb (transitive)]
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surf1967
1891 Hawaiian Almanac & Ann. 92 Would that the youth of the present day could..ride the surfboard as easily as they ride the bicycle.
1920 Scribner's Mag. July 13 A surf board to ride the waves is great fun.
1930 J. Marshall Vagabond Deluxe 59 Every afternoon found me at Waikiki beach..swimming..or trying to ride a surfboard.
1959 D. Hewett Bobbin Up iv. 36 Dawnie rode the breaker up onto the sand like a veteran.
1969 Times 14 Apr. 6/7 Powerful enough to accelerate atomic particles, the particles ‘riding’ on the waves and gaining energy from them.
2007 H. J. Kozak Dead Ex xiv. 71 He'd been a renowned surfer who rode mile-long waves in Waikiki.
b. transitive. Skiing and Waterskiing. To travel on (skis or waterskis).
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1911 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 94/1 They can improvise a first-class snow-shoe from willows, can ride skis double, or can burrow in the snow and keep warm where a coyote would not.
1947 Chicago Tribune 19 Jan. ii. 3/6 This time Art will be riding skis instead of a bomber.
1998 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 14 May (Sports section) b8 The reasons for making a pilgrimage to Ruth Lake can vary from using its mirror-like surface in the morning for riding waterskis, to using afternoon winds for boardsailing.
2007 D. Anderson Ski School 26 As a novice skier you ought to be riding skis that are slightly shorter than you are.
c. transitive. To travel on (a skateboard or snowboard).
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1959 Los Angeles Times 14 June (San Gabriel Valley section) viii. 2/2 More than half a dozen teenagers have been injured in the past month while riding them [sc. skateboards].
1984 N.Y. Times 20 Feb. c2/1 Snowboard fans claim that unlike snow skiing there are virtually no injuries when riding the boards.
1998 L. Michaels Split xi. 224 She wore motorcycle boots and a Hello Kitty backpack and rode a skateboard across campus.
2006 Whitelines Feb. 34/2 Snowboarding isn't just about riding a plank of wood down a slope, it's about exploring new places and making new friends.
II. To float or move on water, and related senses.
13.
a. intransitive. Of a ship, etc.: to float or move on the water; to sail, esp. in a buoyant manner. Frequently with on, over, etc., the water; also with adverbial complement as high, low.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > ride the waves
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OE Genesis A (1931) 1392 He þæt scip beleac. Siððan wide rad wolcnum under ofer holmes hrincg hof seleste.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) 12739 Þar comen ride ouer al þan see [c1275 seilien] wide sipes swiþe manie.
c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 147 (MED) Out of hauen þai rade Til þai com til atoun..Her sailes þai leten doun.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 1843 (MED) On þe streme þat arche can ride.
a1475 (?a1350) Seege Troye (Harl.) (1927) l. 845 (MED) For all be water þey must ryde.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2 Saylinge by the coastes of Iohanna..he rode lyttell lesse then eyght hundreth miles.
1643 Orig. Jrnls. House of Commons 13 Apr. 25 f. 92v To appointe a shipp to ride northward for the Relief of Berwick.
1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 ii Yet cease to hope thy short-liv'd Bark shall ride Down spreading Fate's unnavigable Tide.
1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. ii, in Odes 17 While proudly riding o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded Vessel goes.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 450/2 This is effected by what is called riding on the wave.
1853 Eng. Jrnl. Educ. 7 New Ser. 329 A ship alternately occupies the hollow..between two adjacent waves, or rides high upon the crest of the waters.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid v, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 261 Not less safely and swiftly the fleet rides over the wave.
1919 This Month June 452 With proud assurance the ship rode towards us. Men and women held their breath in the wonder of the sight.
1982 W. L. Heat Moon Blue Highways ix. iii. 347 We take the punt, riding low with the four of us, out to the Allison E.
2008 R. Whitlow Deeper Water Prol. 1 The snub-nosed boat rode on top of the water, a slight swirl marking its wake.
b. intransitive. figurative.
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1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 131 The passage, and whole streame of his commencement, Rode on his tide.
1664 J. Flavell New Compass for Seamen xxviii. 177 Wisdom and Power ride upon the Waves, And in the greaeest [sic] danger, helps and saves.
1767 H. Cumings Thanksgiving Serm. 26 We were exalted to the pinnacle of earthly grandeur and dignity, and rode upon the waves of worldy prosperity.
1831 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 8 Oct. 3/4 Did his Majesty's ministers hope always to ride on the tide of popularity?
1879 F. Pollock in W. K. Clifford Lect. & Ess. Introd. 33 We seemed to ride triumphant on an ocean of new life and boundless possibilities.
1902 Trans. Vermont State Med. Soc. 1901 145 Such an amount of cheerfulness as will enable him, with more or less ease, to ride over the stormy sea of life.
1980 Times 6 Dec. 15/3 City will probably ride on the tide of optimism that came from their midweek defeat of West Bromwich Albion.
2007 P. Dwyer Napoleon (2008) vi. 127 Disaffected bourgeois, riding on the wave of discontent caused by Jacobin policies, won a popular majority in the district sections.
14.
a. transitive. Of a ship, etc.: to float or move on (the water); to sail on (the sea, waves, etc.), esp. in a buoyant manner.In Old English with dative.Apparently unattested between the Old English period and the 17th cent.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > sail or cleave the water or sea
rideOE
furrowc1425
sheugh1513
sulcate1577
sulk1579
busk1747
navigate1795
valleya1849
OE Andreas (1932) 440 Swa gesælde iu, þæt we on sæbate ofer waruðgewinn wæda cunnedan, faroðridende.]
OE Riddle 3 32 Þæt he [sc. a vessel] scyle..fæmig ridan yþa hrycgum.
?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads v. 67 Then snatcht he vp two Priamists..Then tooke their armes, and sent their horse, to those that ride the seas.
1669 T. Allin Jrnl. 27 Jan. (1940) (modernized text) II. 80 A fresh gale and a great sea and much wind, that we rode a sore sea.
1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon Interiora Rerum ii, in Philos. Wks. II. 135 That Fleet; being the greatest in Strength, tho not in Number, that ever rode the Sea.
1779 Crit. Rev. Dec. 414 D'Estaign rode the waves in triumph, carrying protection and independence to America.
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 450/2 A passage boat..riding the wave.
1897 Daily News 11 Dec. 8/3 In the sense, therefore, that she rides the waves instead of labouring through them, the Cambria might be described as a lively ship.
1922 Wisconsin Memorial Day Ann. 1922 31 Where crept his tiny birch canoe, The stately steamship rides the wave.
1944 Jrnl. Royal Afr. Soc. 43 63 Low amidships, with high castles towering fore and aft, they rode the water like ducks.
2006 J. L. Armstrong From POW to Blue Angel x. 149 There was enough light from the sky to see the shadowy figures in the boat riding the gentle swells.
b. transitive. figurative.Quot. 1733 gives a suggested emendation of Shakespeare and J. Fletcher Henry VIII (1623) iii. ii. 436.
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1733 L. Theobald Wks. Shakespeare V. 69 (note) Trod the ways of Glory... Mr. Warburton, who thinks the Metaphor here miserably mangled, conjectures the Poet wrote;..rode the Waves of Glory.
1818 J. Sloan Rambles in Italy 290 The powerful spirits that rode the waves of these political storms.
1844 Christian Parlor Mag. May 25/2 How oft the prosperous breeze we gladly keep, And ride the sea of life with gentle gale.
1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 25 Mar. 392/2 Hancock's courtship went gayly on while he was riding the crest of the Revolutionary wave.
1898 19th Cent. Apr. 525 It is true or not that somebody..believes himself sure to reach the summit of his ambition by riding the wave of Imperialism?
1919 W. N. Harben Cottage of Delight xviii. 123 ‘No, I'm not,’ he went on, riding the tide of his joyous self-emptying.
1955 Huntingdon Libr. Q. 18 107 He was riding a wave of high confidence, for the early seventies were among Dryden's most successful years.
2000 A. Bhide Origin & Evol. New Businesses ix. 235 The business that merely rides a wave has to share its market with new entrants attracted by the high profits of the incumbents.
15.
a. intransitive. To lie or float at anchor. Cf. to ride at anchor at Phrases 1a.to ride a-peak, hawse-fallen, hawse-full: see the second element.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor [verb (intransitive)] > anchor > lie at anchor
standOE
ridec1300
to lay at anchor1530
hove?c1550
c1300 (?c1225) King Horn (Cambr.) (1901) l. 136 (MED) Bi þe se side hi leten þat schup ride.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 968 But forth they gon & lafte hise schepis ryde.
?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 13 Yif ye be bounde to Caleis haven and Ride in the Doowns.
1497 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 252 In Portesmouth haven..the seid Ship rode betwyxt the Towre & the dokke.
1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352 In the rode, yow shall ryde in .xiii. or .xiiii. fadomes, good owes and sande.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. ix. 45 To ride betwixt wind and tide, is when the wind & tide are contrary & of equall power.
1668 London Gaz. No. 286/4 Sir Thomas Allen with his squadron is still riding at Spitthead.
1712 W. Rogers Cruising Voy. 244 Capt. Dampier..never rode where we did, which is the best and only good Road in the Island.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §148 The Buss had rode perfectly easy in the gale of wind.
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 178 The shipping..with a heavy strain on their cables were riding to the S.E. gale.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 39 Ground which is suitable..for ships to ride in safety upon.
1915 Sierra Club Bull. Jan. 276 His boat rides safely moored to the limb of a prostrate tree.
1976 P. Kemp Oxf. Compan. Ships & Sea 257/2 A heavy rope..used to back up the stopper on the anchor cable when the ship rode in a heavy sea in the days before chain cable and cable-holders.
2005 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 12 Feb. 8 A big white cruising yacht at anchor..was beginning to attract serious attention. Premier Cru was riding safely, its mainsail neatly furled.
b. intransitive. figurative. To rest securely. Cf. to ride at anchor at Phrases 1a.
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1594 M. Drayton Matilda sig. D4v My hart in this fayre harbour rides at ease.
1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 27 Well George, in spite of them thou safe dost ride.
1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother v. 57 I fall upon thy breast, the haven, where My beaten mind rides safe, secure from restless Passions.
1910 L. W. Bates Russ. Road to China vii. 315 The ship of state rides safe in the harbor of true representative government.
†16. transitive. To keep (a ship) moored; to secure or maintain at anchor. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > berth, moor, or anchor (a ship) [verb (transitive)] > anchor (a ship) > keep (ship) at anchor
ride1653
1653 N. Buckeridge Let. 30 Nov. in Jrnl. & Let. Bk. (1973) xv. 74 Ye Ship drove into shoule water before we could lett fall our best bouer & kedger..which brought her [sc. the ship] up but did not ride her above an houer.
1676 R. Williams George Fox Digg'd out of his Burrowes 357 An Anchor strong enough to ride a Ship in most weathers.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World vii. 267 Having nothing to ride the bark with, [we] were obliged to keep the sea.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §254 The buss was now rode by this buoy.
1803 Ld. Nelson 22 Dec. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) V. 326 Bays to ride our Fleets in.
III. Extended uses.
17.
a. intransitive. To sit or be carried on (also upon), or travel through, esp. lightly or swiftly, as if on horseback. Formerly also: †to hang on the gallows, in a rope, etc. (obsolete).
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]
rideeOE
hangc1000
anhangc1300
wagc1430
totter?1515
to wave in the windc1515
swing1542
trine1567
to look through ——?1570
to preach at Tyburn cross1576
stretch?1576
to stretch a rope1592
truss1592
to look through a hempen window?a1600
gibbet1600
to have the lift1604
to salute Tyburn1640
to dance the Tyburn jig1664
dangle1678
to cut a caper on nothing1708
string1714
twist1725
to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786
to streek in a halter1796
to straight a ropea1800
strap1815
to dance upon nothing1837
to streek a tow1895
eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) (2009) I. xxv. 497 Ða cild ridað on hiora stafum and mænifealde plega[n pl]egiað.
OE Beowulf (2008) 2445 Swa bið geomorlic gomelum ceorle to gebidanne, þæt his byre ride giong on galgan.
a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2392 In harde ropys mote sche ryde!
c1475 Mankind (1969) 598 (MED) But I thynke he rydyth on þe galouse, to lern for to daunce, Bycause of hys theft.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 115 Ionet the wedo on a bwsum rydand.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. v. 492 The Deuil rides vpon a fiddle sticke. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 154 Infected be the Ayre whereon they ride . View more context for this quotation
a1625 (a1598) A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart (Harl.) in Poems (1910) 137 Go ryd in a rope for this Noble new ȝeir.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 663 The Night-Hag, when call'd In secret, riding through the Air she comes. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 77 Nor in so vast a length our Serpents glide, Or rais'd on such a spiry Volume ride . View more context for this quotation
1776 E. Thompson Syrens ii. 21 Ye Wizards, Witches, old and bare, That ride upon the frisking air.
1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 109 The bird rides lightly on the wind.
1892 H. R. Haggard Nada the Lily 7 She carried my little sister Baleka riding on her hip.
1948 Chicago Tribune 6 July i. 1/4 The contestants ride on floating logs that spin so fast the water churns up like a lawn sprinkler.
1975 R. Cavendish Powers of Evil in Western Relig., Magic & Folk Belief iv. 96 The Valkyries who rode through the air as heralds of carnage.
2006 Times (Canberra) (Nexis) 7 Jan. a 3 Its shape changed to resemble..the outline of a witch, complete with conical hat, riding on a broomstick.
b. intransitive. figurative.
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1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. v. f. 6 He rideth vpon the winges of the windes.
1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. ii. xi. 44 The restlesse cloudes that mantling ride vpon the racking Skie.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. ii. 111 O you leaden messengers, That ride vpon the violent speede of fire. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 369 Constant rotation of th'unwearied wheel That nature rides upon.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. xxxviii. 27 Death rides upon the sulphury Siroc.
1858 F. W. Farrar Eric i. xv. 183 The stain and the shame of sin fell heavier than ever on his heart; it rode on his breast like a nightmare.
1901 W. O. Fuller What happened to Wigglesworth xxxvii. 341 Look out, for the old man's coming, and death rides on the gale.
1949 A. Miller Death of Salesman 132 He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine.
1985 R. S. Peffer Watermen (1991) 195 Snatches of the lyrics rode on the breeze.
c. transitive. To be carried along and supported on (something), esp. lightly or swiftly, as if on horseback.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > be conveyed or transported on
ride1584
1584 R. Wilson Three Ladies of London Prol. sig. A.ii We list not ride the rowling Rackes, that dims the christall skies.
1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv Some-times her leueld eyes their carriage ride, As they did battry to the spheres intend.
1629 H. Burton Babel No Bethel To Bp. of Exon sig. **3 To perswade them, that they ride Peters ship, wherein they may safely arriue at the holy Land.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 535 Till he that rides the whirlwind checks the rein.
1816 Ld. Byron Prisoner of Chillon xiii The eagle rode the rising blast.
1890 St. Nicholas May 584 Not infrequently the boys will ‘ride’ a log down the current.
1932 A. Bell Cherry Tree iii. 33 The plough cuts the earth like a prow forcing its way, but the light harrows move like a raft riding the surface.
1964 H. Gregory Coll. Poems 71 Like waves in that dark sea That rides the wind, nor'east, nor'west.
1997 E. McCoy Making Magick x. 259 Spend as much time riding the air currents as you like.
18.
a. intransitive. Of a thing: to move or be carried or supported, esp. lightly or swiftly, as if on horseback.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [verb (intransitive)] > be conveyed
rideOE
the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (intransitive)] > be supported
rideOE
restOE
to sit upon ——1481
rely1572
stay1585
to sit on ——1605
seat1607
bottoma1640
step1791
heel1850
bed1875
OE Riddle 3 36 Hwilum ic [i.e. a storm] þurhræse, þæt me on bæce rideð won wægfatu, wide toþringe lagustreama full.
OE Genesis B 372 Ac licgað me ymbe irenbenda, rideð racentan sal.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 24838 (MED) Þe weder soft in somertide sone be-gan to rugg & ride [Vesp. reth]..þe winde againe ham rade [Vesp. ras] vn-ride & ham assailed on ilka side.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. liii. 553 A droppe of oile dropped vpon your hand, if there be any moisture,..it will swim and ride aloft vpon the same.
c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 57 The busteous blast..Quhilk ramping ouer his rigging ryds.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 196 None of those rayes of other atoms..come riding or drilling through both.
1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 322 That the Carriage may ride so far out, as that the irons of the Tympan may just rise free.
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 5/2 The eccentrics are then brought into the position shown in the drawing, riding clear of the rails.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xi. §2466 By means of the straps..[they] can be carried on the shoulders, where they ride the lightest.
1917 Pop. Mech. Oct. 573 (caption) The Cage..Rides About 60 Feet above Mean Water Level.
1957 Jrnl. Marine Res. 16 107 It is common for capillary waves having the same velocity as the gravity waves to ride just at the beginning of the crest of the gravity waves.
2002 P. S. Harrington Star Ware (ed. 3) vii. 281 The PVC-framed dome rotates manually 360° by riding smoothly along hook-shaped guides made of nylon.
b. intransitive. figurative.Not always clearly distinguishable from sense 17b.
ΚΠ
?1504 W. Atkinson tr. Thomas à Kempis Ful Treat. Imytacyon Cryste (Pynson) ii. ix. sig. Ev That soule rydethe fulle pleasauntely whom the grace of our lorde supporteth and bereth vp.
1593 H. Lok Sundry Christian Passions ii. ii. 54 Cleng'd are the cloudes and darknesse fled away, And now in triumph doth my sauiour ride.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 169 On whose foolish honesty My practises ride easie. View more context for this quotation
1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida iv. ii. 55 Hinder us not,..My blood rides high as his.
1770 C. Jenner Placid Man i. iv Philosophy and love for his brother had so long rode triumphant.
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton I. ix. 151 The distress which was riding..among the people.
1889 G. Massey My Lyrical Life 98 Through all that punching time, Tom, The big heart rode sublime.
1956 C. Frankel Case for Mod. Man iii. 42 Liberalism is riding with events.
1968 J. H. Parry in R. B. Wernham Counter-reformation & Price Revol., 1559–1610 (1990) ix. 301 He was riding on the crest of popular favour and political success.
2007 R. B. Hurst Woman & her Issues 97 If you let your thoughts ride, they will take over and drive.
c. intransitive. Of a celestial object: to appear to float in space. Frequently with modifying adverb. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > specific
runOE
yernc1055
wadea1400
roll?a1500
ridea1586
trepidate1623
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 10 In highest way of heauen the Sunne did ride.
1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 39 To behold the wandring Moon, Riding neer her highest noon.
1685 in N. Tate Poems by Several Hands 196 Within there Reign'd a Soul, which, like the Star That Rules some Heroes Birth, rode high and clear.
1726 J. Dyer Grongar Hill in New Misc. 82 While Phœbus, riding high, Gives lustre to the Land and Sky.
1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 16 The lamp of our dominion still rides high.
1871 C. Kingsley At Last I. i. 17 To see Sirius..riding high in a December heaven.
1921 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 203/1 A tall moon rode aloofly across the sky.
1967 Sci. News 91 388/3 The large constellation of Ursa Major the great bear, rides high in the north on May evening.
2007 J. V. Jones Sword from Red Ice xv. 225 The sky was a piercing blue and the sun rode pale and low, like the moon.
d. intransitive. Jazz slang. To play with a firm or easily flowing rhythm. Also transitive: to keep to the flow of (a rhythm).
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > specific style or technique > in jazz
go1926
ride1929
swing1931
tear1932
to play (it) straight1933
groove1935
riff1935
give1936
jumpc1938
to beat it out1945
walk1951
cook1954
move1955
wail1955
stretch1961
1929 T. Waller (title of record) Ridin' but walkin'.
1938 Metronome Feb. 25 When they ride, you can't help getting a lift.
1977 J. Wainwright Do Nothin' xi. 184 When Ellington opens on an eight-bar piano intro..you know that..when the full outfit starts leaning back and riding, you are going to be lifted cloud-high.
1993 V. Headley Excess x. 92 He had a natural flair for riding any type of riddim and a voice to match.
2000 S. Tucker Swing Shift i. 52 It is also possible to ride..when you take off. Ride is a quality of rhythmic drive... ‘A band can ride.’
19.
a. transitive. Of a witch, hag, etc.: to sit on and use (a person) like a horse, often in a controlling or oppressive way. Also intransitive. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [verb (transitive)] > possess or assail (a person)
rideeOE
possede1392
obsess1440
possessa1513
indevil1604
inspirit1675
endiableea1734
bedevil1834
bespirit1862
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 14 (table of contents) Gif sio adl wyrde mannan oððe mare ride & wyrde.
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. lxiv. 140 Gif mon mare ride.
1510 H. Watson Gospelles of Dystaues sig. B.iiiv After that she had ben ryden she tasted what it myght be, and founde that it was a roughe thynge.
1567 J. Jewel Def. Apol. Churche Eng. v. ix. §1. 551 No more can not the deuil, who possesseth you, and rideth you, and after his owne wil driueth you from truthe, from Christen Religion, and from al Godlines.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 ii. i. 78 I wil haue some of it out againe, or I wil ride thee a nights like the mare. View more context for this quotation
1649 in J. Campbell Balmerino (1899) 386 Margaret Boyd..declares that hir goodman..went to deathe with it, that Elspeth Seith and other two did ryde him to deathe.
1685 in N. Tate Poems by Several Hands 132 No Amulet can me release From this Damn'd Hag that rides and tortures me.
1725 G. Odingsells Bath Unmask'd i. vi. 11 Poor Soul! the Hags do so ride her by night, and the Priests by day, that she's almost jockey'd out of her Senses.
1775 E. Burke Speech Resol. for Concil. Colonies 38 All the while, Wales rid this kingdom like an incubus; that it was an unprofitable and oppressive burthen.
1855 Graham's Mag. 47 114/2 There he saw, clearly reflected, his own image with that of the hag riding on his back.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn ii. 11 Jim said the witches be witched him and put him in a trance, and rode him all over the State.
1919 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 32 363 Because she was thin, she said the ol' hag used to ride her every night.
1951 H. S. Canby Turn West, turn East xii. 229 His task was the fabled hag riding invisible on the shoulders of the social man.
2006 J. L. West Tall Tales of York County 31 He told her that the old witch rode him every night.
b. transitive. Of a quality, situation, etc.: to dominate or have control of (a person or his or her thoughts); to oppress, tyrannize, have mastery of. Later also in weakened use: to concern or worry (a person).Chiefly a figurative or extended use of sense 19a, but perhaps also influenced by sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > oppression > oppress [verb (transitive)] > domineer over
lord1563
overlord?1574
ride1576
overswaya1586
predomineer1594
to set (put) the dice upon1598
lord1671
to ride (also run) roughshod1778
domineer1796
1576 E. Aggas tr. P. de Mornay Def. of Death sig. B.vi Fortune rideth them like Asses.
1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. vi. 300 Their weakenesse..haunting them & riding them as we vse to speake in euerie corner.
1664 S. Pepys Diary 13 Aug. (1971) V. 239 The Duke [of York]..did cry..‘All the world rides us, and I think we shall never ride anybody.’
1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. 13 I Have seen enough to..ride him to advantage as I please.
1731 ‘C. Crambo’ Mr. Bowman's Serm. 9 The ambitious giddy Priesthood Rides you, as you the tamest Beast wou'd.
1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. ii. 44 Rogues! they are ridden by prejudices!
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Phi Beta Kappa Soc. (ed. 2) 5 The tradesman..is ridden by the routine of his craft.
1862 W. M. Thackeray in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 251 For weeks past this nightmare of war has been riding us.
1903 Strand Nov. 511/2 Grim fear rode him day and night.
1938 G. Heyer Blunt Instrument viii. 155 They won't arrest you. You needn't let that bugbear ride you.
1950 J. R. R. Tolkien Let. 24 Feb. (1995) 137 For me the chief thing is that I feel that the whole matter is now ‘exorcized’, and rides me no more.
1995 L. Gunst Born fi' Dead (1996) ii. 180 Every time you see him, you remember..whoever it was they killed. It keeps riding you until you got to do something.
c. transitive. colloquial (originally U.S.). Of a person: to irritate or annoy (someone); to provoke, tease, criticize.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex > tease
tease1627
rag1749
lugger1782
gammon1801
tig1805
fun1811
run1828
ride1891
rawhide1895
to bust (a person's) chops1953
stir1972
to pull a person's chain1975
1891 F. Harris Eatin' Crow in Fortn. Rev. 56 418 Next day I noticed the boys sort of held off from me, thought me no account, I guess, and that little Irishman just rode me round the place with spurs on.
1918 H. C. Witwer From Baseball to Boches 359 Well, Joe, the mob begins to ride me.
1940 R. Chandler Farewell, my Lovely iii. 22 Go ahead and ride me. Everybody else does.
1979 M. Matshoba Call me not Man 7 No one whined. Dikeledi did not ride Vusi about money, careful not to drive him to desperate measures.
1996 J. Díaz Drown 51 Cut says he heard us last night, rides me the whole time about it.
20.
a. intransitive. To mount a partner or mate for the purpose of sexual intercourse; (also) to have sexual intercourse, esp. when positioned on top.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > mount a partner for purpose of sexual intercourse
ridec1275
vault1575
c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) 494 (MED) Sumeres tide..doþ misreken monnes þonk; Vor he ne recþ noȝt of clennesse, Al his þoȝt is of golnesse..eurich upon oþer rideþ.
c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. 329 (MED) Alle bestes..whan þei hadde ryde in rotey tyme, anon riȝte þer-after Males drowen hem to males.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 348 I may nat on yow ryde, For þt oure perche is maad so narwe allas.
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. 898 (MED) The mare, yf thasse eschewe, on his female As tempte hym first, and whanne he gynneth ride, His wyf is out, this mare is into hale.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xx He may suffre his rammes to go with his ewes..to blyssome or ride whan they wyll.
a1659 F. Osborne Characters in Wks. (1673) 664 In case any ride double, he proclaims them Man and Wife.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 141 I will..find out a Russet-coat Wench and a Hay-cock, And there I will ride Tan-tivee.
1863 Trans. N.Y. State Agric. Soc. 1862 22 77 They had noticed in their sheep the same propensity to ride.
1976 M. Machlin Pipeline xxx. 351 Deirdre elected to ride on top this time.
2007 B. L. King Dysenfranchised Lovers i. 7 I..restructured her sexual terrain and taught her everything from doggy style, to riding on top.
b. transitive. To mount (a partner or mate) for the purpose of sexual intercourse; (also) to have sexual intercourse with, esp. when positioned on top.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > mount (a partner) for purpose of sexual intercourse
ridea1450
mounta1475
beleap1513
leap1530
colta1616
vaulta1616
rut1700
a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 113 Take þen v silken þredus & þre heres of an hors taile þat neuer rode mare, [etc.].
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 245 Syne till his breist did hir imbrace And wald haif riddin hir lyk ane rame.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 610 Partitions wherein..they may easily abide alone.., and especially that one may not ride another.
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 173 These..in shallow plashes croak and ride one another outragiously.
1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 222 They will not be ridden, tupp'd, and ramm'd.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep i. vii. 95 If they [sc. Lambs] are suffered to remain with their Stones.., they are apt to ride one another.
1808 T. H. Horne Compl. Grazier (ed. 3) 16 It not unfrequently happens that cows (after taking the bull) will ride each other.
1863 Edinb. Vet. Rev. 5 393 She [sc. the rabid ewe] incessantly attempted to ride her companions.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 727 That blackguardlooking fellow with the fine eyes peeling a switch attack me in the dark and ride me up against the wall without a word.
1978 S. Allan Inside Job iii. 41 She mounted him and rode him..until they climaxed together.
2004 S. Walker Touch of Gypsy Fire 205 He started to rock against her, riding her with short, subtle little thrusts.
21.
a. intransitive. With on, over, up, etc. To move on or over something; to extend or spread over something.
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?a1425 MS Hunterian 95 f. 179 (MED) Þe þrid induracioun falleþ in summe member þat is broken, þe whiche was euyl restored oþer sette of longe tyme aforne as ȝif þat one partie of þe bone ride vppon anoþir partie.
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xv. viii. 568 You must have a care [in fracture] that the bones ride not one over another.
1777 D. Lysons Farther Observ. Effects of Camphire & Calomel 11 They [sc. the broken ends of the bones] were continually sliding from, and riding over each other.
1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. Pl. xi An Improved Harrow, with running bulls: By this contrivance the harrows are prevented from riding on each other.
1844 H. Stephens Bk. of Farm I. 170 Try by a searching motion of the legs and feet whether any of the stones ride upon others.
1944 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 44 971 When each suture is drawn toward cut end of tendon, it rides over the cut end of the opposite suture.
1962 A. C. O'Dell in J. B. Mitchell Great Brit. (1972) xxx. 563 On occasion Scandinavian ice rode over..the southern part of the Shetland mainland.
1990 Which? Aug. 440 (caption) The knife rode up over the ruler cutting his thumb deeply.
b. intransitive. With on, over, upon. To rest on or project over something.
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the world > space > extension in space > extend [verb (transitive)] > extend over
ridec1475
overrun1850
the world > space > extension in space > extend in space [verb (intransitive)] > extend over edge of
lap1631
disboard1725
ride1839
c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 30v (MED) Her vpmost extremite is a litil additament lijk a rauenes bile þat ridiþ vpon þe iuncture of þe elbowe in þe hyndere and vtmest side, þe which makiþ þe schap of þe elbowe whanne þe arme is folden ynward.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 v. ii. 83 If life did ride vpon a dials point. View more context for this quotation
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 594 To bind the stones wel, they ought in alternatiue course to ride and reach one ouer another halfe.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 10 Between the Fore-leggs and the Hinder-leggs was a great Stone on which the Calf rid.
1709 G. Vaux tr. J. C. Sturm Mathesis Juvenilis I. 374 The Banks of the Earth or Batteries riding upon the Bastions.
1839 C. T. Jackson 3rd Ann. Rep. Geol. Maine 94 The granite rides over the mica slate on the southwest side of the hill.
1880 T. H. Huxley Crayfish 98 The pleura..even ride over the posterior edges of the branchiostegites.
1903 Mod. Engin. Pract. V. vii. 18 The axle is divided at the center, and riding on the two abutting ends is the hub E of the gear or sproket A.
1921 Jrnl. Morphol. 35 238 The attachment of the drum, at this region, is to a stout fibrous ligament which rides over the rounded surface of the tympanic process of the quadratum.
1988 J. Gillis & T. Kelly Armchair Mechanic iii. 63 Every automatic choke requires the use of some kind of cold idle adjustment, usually a setscrew riding on a cam.
2007 P. Sweeney Gun Digest Bk. AR-15 II. App. I. 216 The POF handguard has an integral rail that rides over the flat top of the M4-type receiver.
c. intransitive. Without construction: to rest on or move over something. Also: (Nautical) (of a rope) to be wound with one coil overlying another in such a way as to obstruct the rope's movement.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [verb (intransitive)] > have one turn overlying another
ride1769
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 147 To know which of them it is that Rides, or is extuberant, he uses the Liner.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) 41 564 In oblique Fractures of the Thigh, where the Bones are apt to ride.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Suppl. at Riding A rope is said to ride, when one of the turns by which it is wound about the capstern or windlass lies over another, so as to interrupt the operation of heaving.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xii. §2799 It prevents the chain from riding, in paying out or heaving in.
1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 113 Ride, when leads are pieced in wide measures they sometimes shift and overlap each other. They are then said to ‘ride’.
1948 Pop. Sci. Monthly Dec. 233 The rollers cause the blocks to ride freely.
2005 L. Cartwright & W. A. Pitney Fund. of Athletic Training (ed. 2) xiv. 140 As the knee bends, instead of riding smoothly, the patella is grated across the femur.
d. intransitive. figurative. To rely or depend on; (of money) to be staked on.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > be caused by or result from [verb (transitive)] > depend on
to stand in ——OE
to lie inc1374
to stand upon ——a1393
to turn on ——a1413
to stand by ——a1450
lie1590
set1597
suspend1638
to turn upon ——1652
condition1868
ride1950
1950 Baseball Digest Aug. 72 I'll take the hurler who coasts through every season and then, with heavy money riding on every pitch, blinds the opposition.
1968 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice ii. ii. 91 The simplistic version..was that there was a ‘white hope’ and a ‘black hope’ riding on this fight.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 25 Sept. 10/2 A lot was riding on grapes, but the quality of the white wine made from the postwar harvest was poor.
1990 D. Bolger Journey Home (1991) iii. 165 I've a hundred riding on your man, but watch it, them knackers fight fierce filthy.
2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 7 Oct. iii. 6/4 Mr. Flowers..has the most riding on the deal—financially and reputationally.
22. transitive. Of a thing: to rest on, often by projecting or overlapping.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > position upon > be upon (something) [verb (transitive)]
overlieeOE
ridec1460
to consist on?c1550
overlay1793
over-cap1839
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn 2516 (MED) He..shewid his hondis tho, Strecching forth his fyngirs, in siȝt ouer al aboute, Without[en] knot or knor, or eny signe of goute; And clyȝte hem efft ageyns, riȝt disfetirly, Som to ride eche othir, & som a-weyward wry.
1714 Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 189 Its Root Leaves deeply cut, and those which ride the Stalk whole and round.
1754 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery I. 84 Sometimes the Vertebrae which compose the Sacrum ride one another, and form a large protuberance.
1801 ‘P. Pindar’ Tears & Smiles 56 Of spectacles that rode his nose.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 230 Very often an embolus is caught in an arterial bifurcation, which it rides with a prolongation extending into each branch.
1931 Pop. Mech. July 167 When you need distributor points, improvise them from paper clips; bend and fit a piece of wood on the end of one, to ride the cam.
1990 Compact Disc 7 Aug. 6/2 The stylus of a conventional turntable ‘rides’ the grooves of a record.
2002 Y. Chan Classic Joints with Power Tools 78 A piloted rabbeting bit makes cutting a rabbet on the router table simple by letting the workpiece ride the bearing.
23. intransitive. To give a person indigestion. Frequently in to ride on (also upon) a person's stomach. Also figurative. Also occasionally transitive. In later use English regional (south-western) and Caribbean.
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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xix. v. 14 With meats they [sc. Cucumbers] are not unholsome: and yet for the most part swim they will aloft, and ride upon a mans stomacke.
1640 H. Glapthorne Hollander iv. H2v This Coller spoyles my drinking, or else this Sack has horse-flesh in't, it rides upon my stomacke.
1683 R. Dixon Canidia v. xii. 116 I find these Parsons on my Stomach ride, I can't digest Ignorance, Scandal and Pride.
1710 Receipt to dress Parson after Newest Fashion (single sheet) He'll ride on your Stomach, and give you a Surfeit.
c1736 S. Pegge Alphabet of Kenticisms (1876) (at cited word) The raddishes ‘ride’, i.e. rise upon the stomach.
1887 W. D. Parish & W. F. Shaw Dict. Kentish Dial. (1888) 128 I caan't never eat dese here radishes, not with no comfort, they do ride so.
1996 R. Allsopp Dict. Caribbean Eng. Usage (at cited word) If you eat cucumber in de night, it go ride you.
24. transitive. To endure (adverse conditions, pressure, etc.) successfully, to survive; spec. (of a ship) to survive (a gale, storm, etc.) without significant damage. Cf. to ride out at Phrasal verbs 1, outride v. to ride quarantine: (of a ship) to remain offshore while in quarantine; (in extended use) to spend time in isolation.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (intransitive)] > sustain a storm or danger
live1589
ridea1649
to make good, bad, etc. weather of it1669
busk1713
to busk it out1744
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > resist > maintain resistance against
to stand before ——OE
bearOE
tholec1175
sustainc1330
last1340
suffera1387
support1483
outstand1571
hold1592
to hold outa1616
ridea1649
brunt1800
to stand up to1921
a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) i. x. §vi. 97 This will help you to ride all storms, bear all knocks chearfully.
1718 R. Steele Fish-pool 165 She..rid the storm, and our trusty pilot jumped into the river and took her up.
1721 ‘Lover of Mankind’ Disc. Plague 38 We suffer ships from Turky..where the Plague is always more or less, to land their goods and their men without the ceremony of riding Quarantine.
1799 Hull Advt. 17 Aug. 4/2 The ship was riding flood, and the wind from the southward.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xvii*. 279 He will of course repair to Duchran without loss of time, there to ride quarantine for a few weeks. View more context for this quotation
1885 Western Mail 23 Feb. 3/5 A large sailing vessel was sighted dismasted, riding the storm.
1916 Atlantic Monthly June 850/2 Wisdom commands that we read the barometer intrepidly, trim ship expertly, and set ourselves with stout hearts to ride the gale.
1955 H. Macmillan Diary 25 Aug. (2003) 463 I was not impressed by Armitage... He has no fire in his belly. He will never ride the storm.
1976 Southern Evening Echo (Southampton) 15 Nov. 13/2 Vinazzani appeared to ride a tackle from Earles and then fall over his own feet.
2005 C. Frayling Ken Adam iii. 52 The bigger ship, La France, was riding the gale pretty well, but the Marie Annick didn't have proper ballast.
25. transitive and intransitive. Curling. To strike (an opponent's stone) out of play. Frequently with out. Cf. takeout n. 2a. Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > winter sports > curling > curl [verb (transitive)] > actions
ride1771
draw1787
guard1787
strike1811
hog1822
inwick1823
outwick1830
promote1937
1771 Weekly Mag. 7 Feb. 180 Ride full out the stone that blocks the pass.
1805 G. McIndoe Poems & Songs 55 Be straight how-ice, and dinna ride, Nor sell your stane by playing wide.
1884 J. Taylor Curling 74 J. S., who was a straight, strong player, was once directed by his skip to ride out an opponent's stone.
1911 J. Kerr in Encycl. Sport & Games (new ed.) II. 21/2 Ride, to deliver a stone with such force upon another as to drive the latter from the board-head.
26. intransitive. Of clothing: to work up so as to form folds or creases; to ruck.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [verb (intransitive)] > work upwards
ride1840
hikec1873
1840 Miss Leslie's Lady's House-bk. 401 If there is too much fulness in the back of a night-gown, it will drag downwards off the neck behind, and ride up (as it is called) at the throat.
1881 Mrs. P. O'Donoghue Ladies on Horseback 253 Short-skirted hunting-habits frequently ride up.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 506 The scanty, daringly short skirt, riding up at the knee to show a peep of white pantelette, is a potent weapon.
1951 Sunday Times 28 Oct. 114 ‘Ski pyjamas’ with deeply-ribbed ankles and wrist-bands that won't ride up.
1971 Guardian 24 Aug. 9/1 The pantie..holds the blouse from riding up.
2003 Trail Nov. 83/1 A stirrup under the foot of the boot prevents the gaiter from riding up when you step into hard snow.
†27. transitive. To run up (a sail). Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of sails, spars, or rigging > carry specific amount of sail [verb (transitive)] > set or spread (sails) > raise (sail or yard)
windc1275
to hoise sail1490
to seize upc1540
hoisen1553
tauntc1579
ride1880
up1890
1880 Daily Tel. 7 Sept. 3/3 Waiting for the flash from the commodore's boat to tell them that they can ride up the mainsail.
28. Originally Boxing.
a. intransitive. With with. To move so as to yield to a blow, in order to reduce its impact. Also figurative and in extended use. Cf. to roll with the punches at roll v.2 Phrases 9.
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1916 Washington Post 21 Mar. 8/5 Jess has the happy faculty of letting his head ‘ride’ with these punches.
1938 N.Y. Times 23 Aug. 3/2 He left his brakes unset,..[which] enabled the train to ‘ride with the punch’ when the crash came.
1945 Los Angeles Times 27 June i. 9/1 They have a tendency to lug in, thus ‘riding’ with the blows.
1984 Observer 13 May 25/6 People have a right to expect a big organisation like us to ride with the punches.
1999 J. H. Cobb West on 66 (2001) 11 I'd caught sight of his arm cocking back and I was just barely able to ride with the punch.
b. transitive. Also with out. To move so as to yield to (a blow), in order to reduce the impact. Also figurative and in extended use.
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1925 J. J. Corbett Roar of Crowd xx. 320 I was also hit on the head many times, but one thing I still had left, the old knack of riding the blows.
1946 Chicago Sunday Tribune 17 Nov. iii. 1/1 While large schools groan and waver beneath the impact of education minded GI's, North Bank for the most part has been riding the punch.
1951 G. Heyer Quiet Gentleman xiii. 200 He rode the blow aimed for his chin, countered swiftly, and floored Martin.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl ii. 44 Kurtz was at his desk when the news came, and he took it like an old prize-fighter riding out a punch.
2008 Gold Coast (Austral.) Bull. (Nexis) 24 May 15 The industry jargon rolls off his tongue—taking bumps, learning to fall and riding punches.
29. transitive. Film. To bring in or introduce (a film) with an accompaniment of music. rare.
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1927 Observer 17 Apr. 3/3 The orchestral prelude is usually quite elaborate, and the picture is what is called ‘ridden in’.
30. intransitive. Of an article of clothing: to sit (on a part of the body). With adverbial complement, esp. low.
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1948 Phylon 9 283 A half mad, watery eyed mammy, mumbling and shuffling along in men's oversize hightops, some white lady's castoff hat riding high on her kinks.
1956 Q. Film, Radio & Television 10 250 He is Mexican through and through, from the trousers riding low on his hips to the endless patter.
1986 Houston Chron. 19 Mar. 5 Close-fitting toque hats in alpaca wool or Persian lamb ride low on the forehead.
1992 Washington Post 22 Oct. c6 Her midriff was bare, and riding on her hips was a long black skirt.
2009 M. A. Taylor-Hall At Breakers vii. 316 Faded red jeans riding low enough to expose the top of her flag-blue lace thong.

Phrases

P1. With reference to floating or moving on water (cf. branch II.).
a. to ride at (also †at an, †on, †to an) anchor.
(a) Of a ship, etc.: to lie or float at anchor.
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OE Beowulf (2008) 1883 Sægenga bad age[n]dfrean, se þe on ancre rad.
lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 30 Þonne þæt scyp ungetæslicost on ancre rit and seo sæ hreohost byð.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 1136 (MED) This grete Schip on Anker rod.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 6048 (MED) He þe shypmen preyid hertyly..To rydyn on ankyr a whyl þer-by.
?c1475 in J. Gairdner Sailing Direct. (1889) 15 A man that ridith in the way of odierene at an ankre.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iv. f. 102 The tempest shaked the shyppes of Burthen that rode at Anchor.
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres v. 129 The enemies fleet riding easily at an anker.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia (1629) 56 Long they shot, we still ryding at an anchor without there reatch.
1698 tr. F. Froger Relation Voy. Coasts Afr. 4 The next day we likewise rode at anchor.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 276 We rid fast at an Anchor.
1812 J. Wilson Isle of Palms ii. 185 He sees a stately vessel ride At anchor in a bay.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. x. 160 A schooner riding to an anchor in the bay.
1927 Travel Nov. 26/2 In the harbor of Colombo the old junks of the East ride at anchor side by side with the great ocean liners of the Occident.
1972 D. Tangye Cottage on Cliff viii. 108 By nightfall, I was sure, there would be several boats riding at anchor within sight of Penzance's promenade.
1991 B. Anderson Girls High (1992) xiv. 172 Jenni concentrates on a large yacht with a blue sail cover which rides at anchor in the marina.
(b) figurative. To rest securely; to be safe and secure. Now rare.
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?c1568 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1928) III. 238 My prettie pinnage..Som rakless roig may hasard hir to ryde..at ane anker in the night.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xi. lxix. 291 Ride we first at Anker, though a roomesome Sea we haue, To listen Staffords Comforts which to Elenor he gaue.
1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iii. 564 Their souls ride at anker safely, in the Sea of this world.
?1775 Citizen’s Daughter i. v. 29 Madam,..I will confess to you, that you are the haven, in which I should chuse to ride at anchor.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. iii. 69 This..snug little road-stead, where I thought to ride at anchor for life.
1875 Chronicle (U.S.) 21 Oct. 257/2 These companies determine to ride at anchor until the storm of folly has passed.
1904 H. Church Poems 93 Does he see Our Summer calm of plenty, peace, old age Riding at anchor to its children's love?
b. to ride admiral: see admiral n. Phrases 1.
P2. With reference to being or going on horseback or in (or on) a vehicle (cf. branch I.).
a. to ride a (good) pace and variants: to proceed on horseback or (in later use) on a bicycle at the designated rate of progress.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 11657 (MED) Marie folewed ridyng good paas.
a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Corpus Cambr. 61) (1895) v. l. 60 Forth she rit [a1413 Morgan right] ful sorwfully a pas.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. ii. i. 60 If he that receiues the horse, can find..that hee hath ridden an extraordinarye pace, hee shall pay ten soulz.
1702 G. Farquhar Inconstant i. i. 1 We have rid a swinging pace, from Nemours.
1847 F. B. Harden Hall xxi. 270 Never fear for Sandford; he will ride a good pace on that capital little pony.
1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. v. 131 To ride a breakneck pace round Jacko Hill.
2003 K. Wenzel & R. Wenzel Bike Racing 101 78 Pick a gear in which you can comfortably ride a good pace on a flat road.
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b. to ride a (great) gallop, etc.: see gallop n. 1a and wallop n. 1a.
†c. to ride booty: to share a ride. Obsolete.
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1631 J. Shirley Loves Crueltie iii. ii Would you durst no better ride booty at the horse match!
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 424 If Fortune had been one of the Jockeys, and rid booty, the three to one hath lost the Prize.
1804 Sporting Mag. Mar. 318/2 A mere calumny, invented to give colour to the false accusation of riding booty brought against him.
1893 R. Black Horse-racing in Eng. 120 One is said to have disliked ‘fair’ riding as much as Quintus Horatius Flaccus disliked the profane vulgar, but was delighted to ride ‘booty’.
d. to ride and tie. Cf. also to ride in tie at tie n. 8e.
(a) Of two (or occasionally three) people: to travel with one horse by alternately riding and walking, each person riding ahead for some distance and tying up the horse for the one following. In later use: to compete in an event involving shared alternate riding and running.
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1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 138 They were both setting out, having agreed to ride and tie; a Method of Travelling much used by two Persons who have but one Horse between them. View more context for this quotation
1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 1/2 Both of them used to talk..of this their first journey to London. Garrick, evidently meaning to embellish a little, said one day in my hearing, ‘We rode and tied.’
1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers I. ii. ii. 165 They can ride and tie, as did the worthy brethren Nehemiah Adams, and Zachariah Canter, who rode unto this wilderness in the glory of the Lord, on one steed.
1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 176 I never rode and tied (especially with three) before or since.
1908 J. W. Fox Trail of Lonesome Pine xxvii. 331 We won't ‘ride and tie’ back to town—but I'll take turns with you on the horse.
1947 M. P. Willcocks True-born Englishman xiv. 156 The two men, Joseph and Adams, determine to ‘ride and tie’, travelling down to Somerset, using the horse the Parson has borrowed from his clerk.
1985 B. Johns What is this Madness 107 The women who ride and tie are an impressive group.
2008 R. Toor Personal Rec. viii. 35 While we're riding and tying, making our exchanges going up a 4-mile stretch..we are keeping up with a solitary runner.
(b) In extended use: to alternate, to take turns. Now rare.
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1770 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances V. dclxv. 249 I Quitted our agreeable Friends at Downe Yesterday with a good deal of Regret, and am riding and tying with myself up to Dublin as fast as I can hop, step, and jump.
1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xxxiii. 274 If it [sc. the letter] be long, why we can ride and tie you know, cousin. You a bit and I a bit.
1806 H. Macneill Poems (new ed.) II. 138 Whan folk are sair put, they maun e'en ‘ride and tie’.
1894 G. B. Hill Harvard College iv. 67 In this way, riding and tying as it were, they scampered through the whole Thirty-nine Articles just in time.
1920 Postal Rec. Apr. 88/3 There is a filibuster going on here now over it, Senators riding and tying, so to speak, and filibustering against this bill.
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e. to ride whip and spur: see whip n. 1d.
f. to ride for a fall: to ride foolishly, so as to risk falling; (chiefly figurative) to act recklessly or arrogantly, so as to risk trouble or failure.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > be incautious [verb (intransitive)] > be rash or reckless > so as to court disaster
to play (also mess) with firea1325
to ride for a fall1852
to ask for trouble1871
1852 ‘Scrutator’ Lett. on Managem. Hounds xxvii. 291 He was soon in the saddle, having held the rein in his hand, which most men who ride for a fall do.
1884 E. W. Hamilton Diary 16 Jan. (1972) II. 544 He [sc. Goschen] believes that C. [= Chamberlain] is ‘riding for a fall’ and has doubts as to his loyalty towards Mr. G.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 910 Her husband..has ridden for his falls.
1904 G. B. Shaw Let. 31 Dec. (1972) II. 479 You had better ride for a fall than face the economies that would be needed to allow the shop to clear itself.
1951 J. D. Salinger Catcher in Rye xxiv. 242 I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall.
2002 J. McGahern That they may face Rising Sun (2003) 240 Ever since the sale he had been afraid his uncle could be riding for a fall.
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g. to ride pillion: see pillion n.2 Phrases.
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h. to ride bodkin: see bodkin n. 6.
i. South African. to ride transport [after Afrikaans ry transport] : to convey goods, to work as a goods carrier. Cf. sense 8, transport-rider n., transport-riding n. at transport n. Compounds 2.
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1874 in J. C. Brown Water Supply S. Afr. (1877) iii. ii. 287 There were no cattle in the country in a fit state to ride transport from the coast.
1905 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 61 When I was a young man I rode transport... Then I travelled.
1937 C. R. Prance Tante Rebella's Saga 125 The ox- and the donkey-wagon are almost obsolete, and with them has died out Jock's hope to make his poorer debtors ride transport to work off their debt.
1998 B. M. Du Toit Boers in E. Afr. v. 82 The men might be out in the fields, tending livestock, riding transport, or hunting.
j.
(a) to ride the rails: to travel by train, frequently without paying a fare.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > without paying fare
to ride the rails1890
to ride the rods1900
to ride the blind (also blinds)1906
1890 Denton (Maryland) Jrnl. 13 Sept. 3/6 The new Fall Goods. They are riding the rails, sailing the seas, passing the Custom House.
1925 Washington Post 11 Oct. 2/5 A distinctive type of American folk songs are the airs hummed by hoboes as they..ride the rails in box cars.
1971 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 4 Apr. 12/1 During the depression in the 1930s gangs of youths ranged across the country, riding the rails and sleeping in jungles.
2001 Times 24 July ii. 28/4 Alison Murray is a young Canadian who decided to ride the rails across America living as a hobo.
(b) North American. to ride the rods: to travel on a rod (rod n.1 6b) beneath a railway carriage, usually to avoid paying a fare; (more broadly) to travel by train, esp. without paying.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > without paying fare
to ride the rails1890
to ride the rods1900
to ride the blind (also blinds)1906
1900 Waterloo (Iowa) Daily Rep. 20 Oct. 1/3 I concluded I would ride the rods into Ottumwa and pay my fare back to Albia.
1935 J. T. Farrell Studs Lonigan iii. xvi. 377 Or maybe lose a leg or get killed under a train, or freeze to death riding the rods in winter.
1970 M. R. Naiman in S. Terkel Hard Times 465 I made three treks to the Western states... I used to ride the rods and the blinds.
2003 Canad. Geographic July 59/1 He worked in lumber camps and on threshing crews, rode the rods and stayed in hobo jungles.
(c) to ride (the) cushions: to travel by train as a paying passenger; to travel luxuriously.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > as a paying passenger
to ride (the) cushions1902
society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > luxuriously
to ride (the) cushions1902
1902 Emporia (Kansas) Weekly Gaz. 10 Apr. 3/4 He will ride the cushions home.
1929 H. W. Odum in Amer. Mercury Sept. 57/2 Thought I would ride cushions till my money give out.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 17 Riding the cushions on my way home made me think of another train ride I once took.
1997 D. Edwards World don't owe me Nothing xv. 150 We made enough at that station to buy tickets to ride to Chicago. We rode the cushions!
(d) to ride the blind (also blinds): to travel by train in a blind baggage car (see blind adj. 11d), or occasionally in the covered spaces between cars, to avoid paying a fare; (more broadly) to travel by train without paying a fare. Now historical.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > without paying fare
to ride the rails1890
to ride the rods1900
to ride the blind (also blinds)1906
1906 Dial. Notes 3 153 Ride (the) blind, v. phr., to steal a ride on a blind baggage car or on a railway train. ‘I've spent all my money; I'll have to ride the blind back.’
1924 C. Smith Freight Train Blues (song) in M. Taft Talkin' to Myself (2005) 540 Going to leave this town: because my man is so unkind... I asked the brakeman: let me ride the blinds.
1936 R. Johnson Walkin' Blues (transcript of song) in M. Taft Talkin' to Myself (2005) 323 Well I got up this morning : all I had was gone... Leaving this morning : I have to ride the blinds.
1950 A. Lomax Mister Jelly Roll 172 I..was ashamed to wire for money. So I decided to hobo..and, when the train pulled out the Denver station, I was riding the blinds.
1970 L. De Caux Labor Radical 71 My partners wanted to ride the blinds the rest of the way. I pointed to empty boxcars on a freight.
2007 D. Brown Train Jumper 23 ‘Rode the blinds behind a four-six-four pulling the Crow Flyer down in Arkansas. Stupidest stunt I ever pulled,’ a hobo joked.
k. to ride herd on (also over) North American (chiefly regional (western)): to guard and control (a herd of cattle) on horseback; (usually in extended use) to keep guard over, be in charge of, tend.
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society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > subject [verb (transitive)]
wieldOE
i-weldeOE
onwaldOE
overwieldlOE
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to make subjectc1384
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subjuge?1473
submise?1473
dompt1480
suppedit?1483
to keep under1486
abandon1487
bandon?a1500
suppeditatec1545
to bring under1563
reduce1569
assubject1579
overpower1597
envassal1606
assubjugate1609
vassal1612
subact1619
vassalize1647
vassalate1659
to school down1818
to ride herd on (also over)1895
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [verb (transitive)] > herd cattle
punch1859
bull-whack1869
night-herd1885
rally1888
to ride herd on (also over)1895
point1903
ring1935
1895 N.Y. Times 9 June 32/7 I goes, aimin' to sorter ride herd on Bill, which his disposition is some free an' various an' liable to mix him into trouble.
1902 A. H. Lewis Wolfville Nights xviii. 266 I'm romancin' leesurly along the street when I encounters a party who's ridin' herd on one of these yere telescopes.
1940 Variety 3 Apr. 39 The name bands are come on for the record jockeys who ride herd over not only Decca records but all the others.
1973 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 11 Aug. 7/1 I was riding herd on a hundred head of beeves.
2001 U.S. News & World Rep. 17 Dec. 28/2 For 4 1/2 years Arafat..rode herd over terrorists, following a spate of 1996 Hamas bus bombings and lasting until the intifada.
l. to ride work: to exercise a racehorse.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > engage in horse racing [verb (intransitive)] > train or exercise
to work out1891
to ride work1904
1904 in A. E. T. Watson et al. Racing World & its Inhabitants 107 Up next morning again, riding work, another hard ten miles.
1959 M. Gee in C. K. Stead N.Z. Short Stories (1966) 2nd Ser. 271 He'd ridden work on the horse and knew her well.
1979 D. Francis Whip Hand xiv. 174 My girl assistant says she saw you riding work on the Heath.
2005 W. Vamplew & J. Kay Encycl. Brit. Horseracing 94 Shana Golden sustained severe head injuries while riding work for Derby-winning trainer William Haggas.
m. to ride shotgun North American.
(a) To travel as a (usually armed) guard next to the driver of a vehicle; (in extended use) to act as a protector.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)] > act as guard on vehicle
to ride shotgun1912
1912 Cosmopolitan Sept. 470/2 If thar’s money aboard, an' the express outfit wants it defended, they slams on some sport to ride shotgun that trip.
1931 S. N. Lake Wyatt Earp 162 Regular Stage at 7:00 A.M., next Monday. Wyatt Earp, of Dodge, will ride shotgun.
1955 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Oct. 1 The non-company farmers are up in arms over shots fired at neighboring workers' homes. Several have offered to ‘ride shotgun’ on company trucks.
1966 National Observer (U.S.) 26 Dec. 1/2 The gunships ‘ride shotgun’ on the highly vulnerable, more lightly armed transports.
1972 J. Wambaugh Blue Knight (1973) xv. 284 On nightwatch it's comforting sometimes to have someone riding shotgun or walking beside you.
2002 W. Kennedy Roscoe 212 Mac had known Morty for years, moonlighted with him during Prohibition, riding shotgun on his days off..in Morty's seven-passenger, armor-plated Buick.
(b) To travel in the front passenger seat of a vehicle.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > ride in a wheeled vehicle > in a motor car > in specific manner
coast1925
to ride shotgun1961
1961 Seattle Daily Times 29 Jan. 21 Riding Shotgun on Ambulance... Riding ‘shotgun’ on our swaying ‘stagecoach’ were various young doctors.
1972 National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 1/1 Bob Earle was riding shotgun when suddenly my car skidded hard, its rear whipping out to the right.
1992 C. P. Estés Women who run with Wolves i. 27 She is said to stand by the highways near El Paso, or ride shotgun with truckers to Morelia.
2005 R. J. Sawyer Mindscan xvii. 114 She was happy to do the driving now. I couldn't remember the last time I'd ridden shotgun, but it did give me a chance to look at the scenery.
n. to ride the clutch (also brake) and variants: to drive with one's foot over the clutch or brake pedal, often depressing it slightly and overusing it.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive or operate a motor vehicle > operate clutch and gears
change1895
to change down1904
declutch1905
shift1910
to ride the clutch (also brake)1916
double-declutch1934
double-clutch1938
upshift1956
1916 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 12 Mar. 39 (headline) Do not ride your clutch pedal, is warning issued by fair motorist.
1965 R. Priestley & T. H. Wisdom Good Driving iii. 30 The second common fault is ‘riding the clutch’.
1984 Pop. Mech. Feb. 20/1 Pads are half worn and rotors are again warped. All other parts appear normal. I don't ride the brake pedal.
2007 W. F. Lee Boys in Blue White Dress xvi. 126 We're barely moving, just inching and jerking along as Atherton rides the clutch.
P3. With reference to punishment.
a. to ride on a cowl-staff: see cowl-staff n. a.
b. to ride the horse: to sit astride a raised plank or log as a punishment. Now historical.
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1649 Moderate No. 34 345 Four of them sentenced to ride the Horse, with their faces to the Tayl, and their Swords to be broke over their heads, and to be cashiered the Army.
1730 Acts Assembly Charibbee Leeward Islands 141 If private Soldiers shall be unable to pay their Fine, they shall ride the Horse, be piquetted or tied Neck and Heels for One Hour.
1845 J. Train Hist. & Statist. Acct. Isle of Man II. xviii. 140 When a soldier was sentenced..to ride the horse, he was placed on the back, with his hands tied behind.
2000 N. Day Trav. Guide to Civil War Amer. 83 Another popular punishment is ‘riding the horse’. The offender is forced to spend hours painfully straddled across a log high in the air.
c. to ride the stang: see stang n.1 1b.
d. U.S. slang to ride the lightning: to be executed in the electric chair.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] > be executed in electric chair
fry1929
to ride the lightning1932
1932 C. Himes His Last Day in Abbott's Monthly Nov. 33/1 Death row at Big Meadows where he had..returned in less than a year after his release to ride the lightning in the hot-squat.
1968 Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 15 Sept. 10/3 Four hours before I was ‘to ride the lightning’ in the chair a man came to the jail and confessed.
2001 R. Bragg Ava's Man 79 They would strap you down and make you ride the lightning for killing a man.
P4. Figurative senses.
a. to ride on the back of and variants: (figurative) to steer, control; to be mounted upon, to be carried by. Hence: to gain (unearned) advantage or aggrandizement from; to capitalize on the work or success of (cf. on the back of at back n.1 Additions).
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1595 W. Covell Polimanteia sig. V3 Hauing obtained Corinth, hee shall after come to ride vpon the backe of Greece.
1647 Armies Letanie sig. A2v From riding on the backs of higher Powers,..Libera nos.
1740 B. Franklin Poor Richard's Almanack 1741 Lying rides upon Debt's back.
1781 J. Coltman Every Man's Monitor 67 He that rides on the back of pride, will certainly be cast headlong into hell.
1865 J. Heiton Old World & Young World i. 13 Fashion..—that merry imp who rides on the back of our cold prudence.
1921 P. Maxwell Third of Life iv. 30 His pride, riding on the back of his poverty, brought him many a snub and affront in those meagre days.
1952 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 66 29 We may expect cycles [of business] of shorter length to ride on the back of Juglar cycles.
1991 New Scientist 15 June 52/1 Is this book simply riding on the back of the popular demand for dinosaurabilia?
b. to ride roughshod over: see roughshod adj. 1.
c. to ride high: to do well, experience success (on the basis of something); to be in the ascendancy. Now frequently as to be riding high.
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1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iii. 317 Ill stands it now with the Seigneur,..who has ridden high on his chartier and parchments.
1871 W. H. Dixon Her Majesty's Tower (ed. 2) xxiii. 257 On crossing into France, he heard that Villiers, who was riding high and safe in favour, would not suffer him to approach White Hall!
1883 H. C. Lukens Jets & Flashes 19 It has been well said that beggars ever have an ambition to ride high.
1923 Chicago Tribune 17 July 18/1 (heading) Iowa farmers riding high on corn at 75 cts.
1971 H. Seymour Baseball: Golden Age xx. 408 Now that the draft-exempt leagues were riding high, it was the major leagues' turn to complain.
2000 Wired Feb. 181/1 The $375 million Chicago-based company is riding high on slot machines and video-lottery gear.
d. to ride a tiger: see tiger n. 12a.
e. to ride one's luck: see luck n. Phrases 4c.
f. to let something ride: to let something take its natural course; to leave something alone; also to allow something to ride.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > permit [verb (transitive)] > permit by non-intervention
let971
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to let (a person or thing) worthlOE
to let (a person or thing) yworth?c1225
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to let something ride1908
1908 C. Fowler Let. 17 Nov. in R. G. Tomlinson Rocky Mountain Sailor (1998) vi. 343 I find it very hard to concentrate on any particular subject and get a line on the various influences and conditions involved. As a general rule, I give it up and just ‘let it ride’.
1918 J. Thurber Let. 16 July (2002) 16 No response. And, quite like the lackadaisical Thurber, I let it ride from thence to nownce.
1933 H. L. Ickes Diary 14 Nov. in Secret Diary (1953) I. 121 I was assured through Marx that the thing would be allowed to ride.
1944 R. Chandler Lady in Lake xi. 63 ‘Kind of smelly work, to my notion.’ I let that ride.
1975 J. Symons Three Pipe Probl. xvi. 158 You think you can just let it ride?
2007 V. Boyd One Fell Swoop 61 I try to just take a step back and let things ride for a while—try not to worry too much.
g. to ride again: (of a person or thing) to reappear, esp. in different or unexpected circumstances, or with renewed vigour. Chiefly in —— rides again (frequently used as a title).
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [phrase] > reappear
to ride again1930
1930 ‘M. Brand’ (title) Destry rides again.
1941 Pleasures of Publishing (Columbia Univ. Press) 3 Feb. Our good friend..sends us a circular which..is headed, ‘Blackstone Rides Again’, and is an announcement for a new edition of Blackstone's Commentaries.
1972 J. Wainwright Requiem for Loser iv. 72 The publisher said: ‘A sequel?’.. He [sc. the author] said: ‘What d'you think we should call it? Drover Rides Again, or Son of Drover?’
1994 G. Seal in I. Craven Austral. Pop. Culture 161 (chapter title) The wild colonial boy rides again and again: an Australian legend abroad.
2005 R. A. Davies Inventing Sam Slick xix. 138 (chapter title) Sam Slick rides again.
P5. Other phrases.
a. Proverb. to ride a free horse to death: to take excessive advantage of a favour or asset, thereby squandering it.
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1646 H. Peters Last Rep. Eng. Wars 12 He that will ride a free horse to death, may in time be spurring a dull Jade to no purpose.
1723 C. Walker Authentick Mem. Sally Salisbury i. 11 The inconveniency she put them to, oblig'd her to think of some Method for her own Support, without being troublesome to her Friends; or, as the saying is, to ride a free Horse to Death.
1847 Commerc. Rev. South & West Nov. 323 After digging his potatoes in the fall he intends sowing turnip seed on the same ground... This is crowding too much on the land; it is what a jockey would call ‘riding a free horse to death’.
1898 M. E. Braddon In High Places iv. 70 Many a meal you have shared with me has been at his expense, George. But do not suppose that I would ride a free horse to death—I only appealed to him when our case was desperate.
1988 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Jan. Town of Cicero residents didn't know a good thing when they had it. Now they don't have it. They have ridden a free horse to death.
b. to ride a (also one's) hobby (also hobby-horse): to pursue a favourite occupation or interest to an excessive degree (cf. hobby n.1 5).
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > extreme opinion, dogmatism > fanaticism > pursue a hobby [verb]
to ride a (also one's) hobby (also hobby-horse)1672
1672 M. Locke Observ. Ess. Advancem. Mus. 31 If he'l have it so, let him ride his own Hobby Horse.
1713 Honour retriv’d from Faction 37 The present Queen is so Wise as to let them all ride their one Hobby-Horses after their accustomed Manners.
1767 G. S. Carey Momus 11 See him return, declining, and in age, Riding, his only Hobby-Horse, the stage.
1823 W. Scott Peveril I. ix. 231 The pleasure of being allowed to ride one's hobby in peace and quiet.
1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 189 He must of course be naturally of a rather attitudinizing turn, fond of brooding and spouting and riding a theological hobby.
1919 Expositor Nov. 136/1 Such planned variety of themes..will save you from the disaster of riding your hobbies to death.
1966 Times 24 Nov. 17/1 With so many different witnesses, there is no danger of one particular hobby-horse being ridden to death.
c. Sound Recording. to ride (the) gain: to reduce or increase the gain when an input signal becomes too large or too small, in order to keep the output within the limits of audio equipment; to vary the gain manually according to the strength of the incoming signal.
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society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > put on or produce broadcast [verb (intransitive)] > reduce or increase gain
to ride (the) gain1933
1933 Jrnl. Electr. Workers & Operators 32 387/2 A volume indicator for visually measuring sound volume, to enable the ‘mixer man’ to ‘ride gain’.
1962 A. Nisbett Technique Sound Studio v. 100 Overmodulation on music must be avoided not by ‘riding the gain’ but by careful preparation.
1981 Perspectives New Music 20 634 It is usually found to be desirable to ‘ride’ the gain of the audio network at the level of the feedback threshold while the instrument is played.
2001 A. J. Zak Poetics of Rock 223 An engineer might ride gain on a vocal..to keep it at the desired volume.

Phrasal verbs

PV1. With adverbs in specialized senses. to ride down
transitive.
1. To bring down by pursuing to exhaustion or to a point of no escape; (also) to knock down by colliding with or hitting. Cf. down adv. 2b.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > overtake by riding
ofrideeOE
overridea1450
to ride down1660
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > collide with and knock down
to ride down1660
1660 J. Sadler Olbia 205 I will Ride them down..as Lambs for slaughter.
1696 J. Lead Fountain of Gardens 369 This is the Lamb and the Bride, which shall the Dragon and the Beast, with all his horned Power ride down.
1777 W. Nimmo Gen. Hist. Stirlingshire x. 228 A woman.., upon observing a man in armour galloping full speed towards her,..ran off, afraid of being rode down.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. i. 11 He..was on the point of riding down a large old roomy family carriage.
1856 C. J. Andersson Lake Ngami 266 The ostrich is also at times ridden down by a single horseman.
1910 A. Chapman & W. J. Buck Unexplored Spain v. 58 The way they ride down a wounded stag or boar.
1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 223 As the minister tried to ride him down Rob caught the handles and twisted them sore, and off the minister came, like a sack of corn.
1962 E. T. Benson Cross Fire xxxvii. 337 Campaigning I read about all this. Read how a young boy trying to shoot up a tank was ridden down and crushed beneath the caterpillar treads.
2003 S. Warring in D. Chislett Urban 3 71 I see them cut them out, ride them down, challenge them, win their respect,..slide the bridles over their rolling eyes.
2. figurative. To overcome; to get the better of; to put down.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > overcome or defeat
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overwinOE
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to say checkmatea1346
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to put undera1393
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to shave (a person's) beardc1412
to put to (also at, unto) the (also one's) worsec1425
adawc1440
supprisec1440
to knock downc1450
to put to the worsta1475
waurc1475
convanquish1483
to put out1485
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reduce1605
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worst1646
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cuffa1657
trounce1657
to ride down1670
outdo1677
routa1704
lurcha1716
fling1790
bowl1793
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beat1801
mill1810
to row (someone) up Salt River1828
defeat1830
sack1830
skunk1832
whop1836
pip1838
throw1850
to clean out1858
take1864
wallop1865
to sock it to1877
whack1877
to clean up1888
to beat out1893
to see off1919
to lower the boom on1920
tonk1926
clobber1944
ace1950
to run into the ground1955
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 111 I could procure hundreds, that should ride both Sun and Moon down, and be everlastingly yours.
1706 J. Metford Proposal for Parochial Reformation ix. 39 Travellers Ride down the Honour of the Lord's Day.
1728 H. Fielding Love in Several Masques i. v. 12 Being a Day of Business, I have rid down two Brace of Chairmen this Morning.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xvii. 155 When officers are once determined to ‘ride a man down’, it is a gone case with him.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §9. 700 The support of the Commons..enabled Harley to ride down all resistance.
1910 J. Buchan Prester John xx. 190 I had ridden the night down, and did not feel so very tired.
1941 D. C. Allen Star Crossed Renaissance v. 190 They united like so many fox-hunting squires to ride down the pretenses of the extreme school of judicial astrologers.
1966 W. E. Wright Serf, Seigneur, & Sovereign 160 Obstacles were there to be ridden down, prejudices to be ridiculed. His was the direct, forceful method.
3. To exhaust (a horse) by excessive riding. Now rare.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > exhaust (a horse) by excessive riding
override1609
jade1615
blow1651
to ride down1682
to sew up1826
to stump up1853
bucket1856
stump1883
1682 W. Wycherley Epist. to King & Duke i. 25 So gadding Princes, Hackneys are to empty Fame, Who Loads 'em 'till she Rides 'em down or Lame.
1709 London Gaz. No. 4580/1 The Czar was very active.., and rid down four Horses.
1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies Introd. sig. A2 v The Farmer..began to lament that his Horse was so ridden down, that he fear'd, he would not be able to carry him to Shrewsbury.
1846 K. Thomson Mem. Jacobites III. 278 He was frequently known, during the march from Carlisle to Derby, to ride down three horses a day when information of the enemy was to be procured.
1899 C. A. Evans Confederate Mil. Hist. xix. 194 During the day, Shelby rode down horse after horse, trying to bring some sort of order out of the chaos.
1921 in N. H. Thorp Songs of Cowboys (ed. 2) 167 'Til he rode down his horse and had to pull out.
4. Nautical. To stretch or take down (a sail) by putting the force of one's weight on it or on the rope holding it. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > other nautical operations > [verb (transitive)] > make firm or taut > by specific means
swift1485
to ride down1836
1836 W. N. Glascock Naval Service I. 230 The custom of riding down the heads of sails is one which no practical seaman will ever sanction.
1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. 120 To bend or bear down by main strength and weight; as, to ride down the main tack.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Riding-down, the act of the men who throw their weight on the head of a sail to stretch it.
1907 A. T. Mahan From Sail to Steam vii. 161 The main-tack is the chief rope controlling the biggest sail in the ship, and at times..it has to be got down into place by the brute force of half a hundred men, inch by inch, pull by bull. That is called riding down.
1980 S. Hugill Shanties from Seven Seas Gloss. 595 Boys were detailed off to ‘ride down’ such sails.
 to ride out
transitive.
1. Of a ship, etc.: to withstand (a gale, storm, etc.) without significant damage or dragging anchor. Also (of a person, animal, etc.): to survive (a storm, hurricane, etc.).
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the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)]
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adreeOE
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to pass over ——a1393
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contrive?a1475
overdrive1487
consumea1500
to pass forth1509
to drive off1517
lead1523
to ride out1529
to wear out, forth1530
to pass away?1550
to put offc1550
shiftc1562
to tire out1563
wear1567
to drive out1570
entertainc1570
expire1589
tire1589
outwear1590
to see out1590
outrun1592
outgo1595
overshoot1597
to pass out1603
fleeta1616
elapse1654
term1654
trickle1657
to put over1679
absorb1686
spin1696
exercise1711
kill1728
to get through ——1748
to get over ——1751
tickc1870
fill1875
the world > time > duration > have duration [verb (transitive)] > outstay or overstay
outdwell1600
overstand1600
sit1602
to ride out1603
outstaya1616
overstay1641
outsit1661
tarry outa1662
stay1749
to sit out1752
to overstay one's welcome1858
stay1858
society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [verb (transitive)] > sustain a storm
to ride out1603
outride1647
weather1673
1529 [see 2].
1569 B. Googe Shippe of Safegarde sig. B.vijv The tide is strong that runneth thereabout, The weather great that beates vpon the cost, The holde to weake to thinke to rid it out, Whereby full many at ancour haue bene lost.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 589 The sea was grown so rough, that the admiral was not able longer to ride it out with his gallies.
1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xv. 469 That Fleet had rode out all the Winter Storms before Cales.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 318 The wind blew..with such fury, that we..despaired of riding out the storm.
1790 R. Beatson Naval & Mil. Mem. I. 183 His Majesty's ship, the Rippon, alone rode out the gale.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xiii. 31 The ship Lagoda..rode out the gale in safety.
1866 Buffalo Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 5 341 Although greatly retarded in our progress, the ship rode out the storm triumphantly.
1912 Bird Lore Jan.–Feb. 69 Here it finds an abundance of food, and, with hosts of other sea-fowls, rides out the winter's fury.
1947 Billboard 4 Oct. 56/4 Mrs Batt and I were in our summer apartment and rode out the storm which struck from the north-east.
2005 K. A. Emanuel Divine Wind xvii. 120 Some 274 women and children survived aboard two barges that miraculously rode out the storm.
2. figurative and in figurative contexts. To survive (pressure, etc.); to endure successfully, to last to the end of. Formerly also: †to spend, pass (obsolete).
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1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes ii, in Wks. 195/1 [He] went ouer the sea..to se flaunders, & France, and ryde out one somer in those countrees.
1597 Sir W. Slingsby in Sir H. Slingsby Diary (1836) 251 I thank God my brother and myself ride it out at an anker.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 99 If this man will not ride out (as they say) the time of the payment of the Bills.
1646 H. Peake Medit. upon Seige 4 He that rides out a Seige, and gives his Enemy the check, beares away the greatest honour.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 86 It could not be, for then he could never have ridden out an eternal period.
1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 64 A courtier should..foresee a storm, know whether he is able to ride it out [etc.].
1826 Gospel Advocate 4 239/1 The republic has lived, she has rode out the storm, surmounted every difficulty, increased in strength.
1877 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIII. 254 That our faith may ride out every storm of doubt.
1957 S. J. Perelman Road to Miltown 97 The producer of Sherry Flip was..a onetime yacht broker riding out the depression on a cask of Courvoisier.
1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space v. 111 It was central to the..civil service to provide steady and continuing policies and to ride out the extremes of political change.
2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 43 Egypt rides out the boom and the bust. Every other country has to come begging to Joseph for rations.
3. Horse Racing. To continue to urge (a horse) to speed through the end of a race. Also intransitive.
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1860 Manch. Guardian 9 Jan. 4/5 The second in the race, Rupee,..was evidently not ‘ridden-out’, as an after performance proved.
1898 Boston Globe 24 Aug. 7 For the last 16th Lewis rode out with hand and heel to win by three lengths.
1927 Times 17 Dec. 5/1 The last-named could, I think, have been placed if she had been ridden out.
1975 T. Fitzgeorge-Parker Great Racehorse Trainers vi. 120 Even when the French challengers came at him, he never went for his whip but rode his mount out with hands and heels.
2008 Racing Post (Nexis) 13 Oct. 14 Spencer did not have too much to worry about as he rode her out to win by two and three-quarter lengths from favourite Wake Me Now.
PV2. With prepositions in specialized senses. to ride over——
intransitive. To dominate; to override.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > refuse to submit to [verb (transitive)] > set aside authority
recusea1387
unauthorize1554
overridec1565
overtop1584
to set aside1594
to ride over——1651
1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum xi. 127 The Priests in Babel,..who ride over her [sc. Christendom] as wealthy rich domineering Masters.
1792 E. Burke Let. to H. Langrishe 23 The good of the common-wealth is the rule which rides over the rest; and to this every other must completely submit.
1833 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. July 156/1 In the course of the debate, Mr. C. triumphantly rode over a host of objections.
1897 C. C. Abbott When Cent. was New 15 Don't think you can ride over everybody 'cause they didn't go to college.
1969 Times 4 Dec. 11/5 A single country could no longer ride over the wishes of the others.
1999 J. M. Coetzee Disgrace (2000) vi. 50 ‘The wider community is entitled to know,’ she continues, raising her voice with practised ease, riding over him, ‘what it is specifically that Professor Lurie acknowledges.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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