riding rodn.
/ˈrʌɪdɪŋ rɒd/, U.S. /ˈraɪdɪŋ ˌrɑd/ Now historical.
A rod or stick used while riding to urge a horse to move faster; a switch. Cf. riding stick n. (b) at riding n.1 Compounds 3, riding wand n. at riding n.1 Compounds 1a(b), etc.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > urge on > with a whip > (types of) whip
wandc1400
rod?a1475
riding rod?a1549
switch1597
quirka1616
whippet1616
shambrier1667
horsewhipa1691
whip-stick1782
lash-whip1787
flogger1789
string1839
nagaika1842
whalebone1842
quirt1845
switcher1847
ash-plant1850
hunting-crop1857
dick1864
bow-whip1890
?a1549 Inventory Henry VIII (1998) I. 206/1 Item iij ryding roddes for ladyes.
1555 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 376 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 Paid..for ij ryding roddes of bone for my Ladie, and other thinges, xxijd.
?1573 L. Lloyd Pilgrimage of Princes f. 9 A litle rounde circle which Popilius made with his ryding Rodde.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. v. 59 A fish..[with] a long tayle like a ryding rodde.
1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters xxxiii. 116 May we not take his riding-rod for death's standard.
1715 Persecution Expos'd 214 Others..deposed, that Friends had hardly any Staves, exept a riding Rod or Whip.
1768 Grand Instr. to Commissioners appointed to frame New Code Laws for Russ. Empire 7 At each Horse's Side a Groom walked with a riding Rod in his Hand.
1820 W. Scott Abbot II. iv. 119 She holds up her riding-rod as if she would lay it about some of their ears.
1889 R. L. Stevenson Master of Ballantrae i. 14 The woman had another stone ready, which she made as if she would cast; and he, to ward himself, threw up the hand that held his riding-rod.
1915 J. Farnol Beltane Smith iii. 26 A sudden anger came upon her, and, bending her black brows, she raised her jewelled riding-rod threateningly.
1948 M. Henry King of Wind xix. 136 They walked about, talking in hushed, expectant voices, twirling their riding rods, taking pinches of snuff, sneezing lightly.
1999 J. Arnold in A. de la Haye & E. Wilson Defining Dress ii. 11 (caption) A Belgian noblewoman riding, holding a riding rod. Engraving from Abraham de Bryn..1576.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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