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单词 running on horseback
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running on horseback
a. The action of riding on horseback, typically at a quick pace, and esp. in a race or tournament; racing; jousting, tilting; an instance of this. Frequently in running on horseback, running at the ring, and similar phrases. Also in extended use. Now chiefly historical.spear-running: see spear n.1 Compounds 3a.
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runningeOE
horse-running1504
swift horse running?a1513
horse racingc1654
horse-coursing1764
jockeyinga1770
sport of kings1918
eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. vi. 400 Eala; hwæt ðu me micel yfel & lað dest mid þinre ærninge [L. o quam magnum uae facis mihi sic equitando].
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 2402 (MED) Yeur rennyng & yeur trotting in-to an esy pase I shall turn or þat wee twyn.
c1500 Lyfe Roberte Deuyll 283 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1864) I. 230 Lordes came fro many a farre lande, And Ladyes also, that runnynge to see.
1563 in W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. (1759) II. App. 14 We..pass our time in feasts, banquetting, masking, and running at the ring, and such like.
1625 P. Heylyn Μικρόκοσμος (rev. ed.) 391 The exercises were running with swift horses, whorlebats, [etc.].
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 465 They haue Tiltings, Runnings with lances against a Post Armed like a man at all peeces.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. v. 211 The Duke..had invited all the Nobility and Gentry of the Country to Bordeaux to a publick running at the Ring.
1739 in J. Cheny Hist. List Horse-matches Run p. v In case of Neglect or Refusal..such Owners and Riders shall be immediately declar'd incapable of Running or Riding any more.
1776 T. Mortimer Brit. Plutarch (new ed.) II. 97 There were bear-baitings, fire-works, Italian tumblers, and a country wake, running at the quintain, and morrice-dancing.
1828 R. Thomson Illustr. Hist. of Great Brit. II. iv. ii. 282 Sports on the Thames, of running at a mark, or tilting, in boats with wooden spears.
1844 J. Donovan Rome Anc. & Mod. (ed. 2) II. 445 Funeral games,..wrestling, leaping, running on horseback and bounding with the lance.
1880 19th Cent. Oct. 606 It [sc. the day's sport] partook of the double nature of stalking and running on horseback.
1913 M. Sullivan Court Masques James I i. 14 Beaumont was invited for Twelfthnight to a dinner, running at the ring, a play, [etc.].
1995 Past & Present No. 146 145 St Francis de Sales defended a whole range of pastimes as good in themselves, among them tennis, running at the ring, chess and draughts.
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