Word Direct Answers

What does "riding" mean?

Riding: Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. "One riding apparitor." Ayliffe.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
  2. 3.Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day. Riding clerk. (a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.] (b) One of the "six clerks" formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery. -- Riding hood. (a) A hood formerly worn by women when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding school, a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
  3. 4.The act or state of one who rides.
  4. 5.A festival procession. [Obs.] When there any riding was in Cheap. Chaucer.
  5. 6.Same as Ride, n., 3. Sir P. Sidney.
  6. 7.A district in charge of an excise officer. [Eng.]

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