The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jockeyship \Jock"ey*ship\, n. The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey.
Go flatter Sawney for his jockeyship.
--Chatterton.
Where can at last his jockeyship retire?
--Cowper.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. 2 ''Where can at last his '''jockeyship''' retire?'' — Cowper.
Usage examples of "jockeyship".
And to confess the truth, I know not how to excuse this piece of jockeyship and ill faith, even in Rice ap Thomas, whom I regard as the father of my family, and the chief ornament of my beloved country.
Gerald himself looked upon it as a sort of juggle,--a kind of jockeyship by which he had lost the prerogative of birthright.
No matter that he was not an ideal shape for jockeyship, he had resolutely followed in the wake of his own father, my grandfather, a distant Titan who had finished second one year in the Grand National before covering himself with military glory in World War One.
The other two slouched down as though they had not a care in the world and Bill the Gunner, restored to jockeyship, amused himself by pretending to whip Sensation while moving at a walk.