riding
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
riding1
▶noun
- 1 the sport or activity of riding horses.
- 2 a path for horse riding.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
riding2
▶noun
- 1 (usu. the East/North/West Riding) each of three former administrative divisions of Yorkshire.
- 2 an electoral district of Canada.
– origin OE trithing, from ON thrithjungr ‘third part’, from thrithi ‘third’; the initial th- was lost due to assimilation with the preceding -t of East, West, or the -th of North.
'riding' also found in these Oxford entries:
aged
- aquaplane
- bangtail
- bareback
- baulk
- bay
- bearing rein
- bit
- blaze
- blinker
- blue roan
- bolt
- bottom
- break
- breaking cart
- breastplate
- breeches
- breeching
- bridle
- bridleway
- bridoon
- broken wind
- bronco
- brougham
- brumby
- buck
- buckjump
- c
- cannon bone
- canter
- cantle
- capriole
- caracole
- carousel
- cassock
- cavalcade
- champ
- check rein
- cheekpiece
- chestnut
- cinch
- colt
- coronet
- courbette
- crib-biting
- crop
- cross-country
- croup
- crupper
- curb
