Crossword clues for ridden
ridden
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ridden \Rid"den\, p. p. of Ride.
Ride \Ride\, v. i. [imp. Rode (r[=o]d) ( Rid [r[i^]d], archaic); p. p. Ridden( Rid, archaic); p. pr. & vb. n. Riding.] [AS. r[=i]dan; akin to LG. riden, D. rijden, G. reiten, OHG. r[=i]tan, Icel. r[=i][eth]a, Sw. rida, Dan. ride; cf. L. raeda a carriage, which is from a Celtic word. Cf. Road.]
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To be carried on the back of an animal, as a horse.
To-morrow, when ye riden by the way.
--Chaucer.Let your master ride on before, and do you gallop after him.
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To be borne in a carriage; as, to ride in a coach, in a car, and the like. See Synonym, below.
The richest inhabitants exhibited their wealth, not by riding in gilden carriages, but by walking the streets with trains of servants.
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To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.
Men once walked where ships at anchor ride.
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To be supported in motion; to rest.
Strong as the exletree On which heaven rides.
--Shak.On whose foolish honesty My practices ride easy!
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To manage a horse, as an equestrian.
He rode, he fenced, he moved with graceful ease.
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To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle; as, a horse rides easy or hard, slow or fast. To ride easy (Naut.), to lie at anchor without violent pitching or straining at the cables. To ride hard (Naut.), to pitch violently. To ride out.
To go upon a military expedition. [Obs.]
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To ride in the open air. [Colloq.]
To ride to hounds, to ride behind, and near to, the hounds in hunting.
Syn: Drive.
Usage: Ride, Drive. Ride originally meant (and is so used throughout the English Bible) to be carried on horseback or in a vehicle of any kind. At present in England, drive is the word applied in most cases to progress in a carriage; as, a drive around the park, etc.; while ride is appropriated to progress on a horse. Johnson seems to sanction this distinction by giving ``to travel on horseback'' as the leading sense of ride; though he adds ``to travel in a vehicle'' as a secondary sense. This latter use of the word still occurs to some extent; as, the queen rides to Parliament in her coach of state; to ride in an omnibus.
``Will you ride over or drive?'' said Lord Willowby to his quest, after breakfast that morning.
--W. Black.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., from past participle of ride (q.v.). Sense evolution, via horses, is from "that which has been ridden upon, broken in" (1520s) to, in compounds, "oppressed, taken advantage of" (1650s).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 Full of. 2 Oppressed by. v
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(past participle of ride English) Etymology 2
vb. (past participle of rid English)
WordNet
v. sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions; "She never sat a horse!"; "Did you ever ride a camel?"; "The girl liked to drive the young mare" [syn: sit]
be carried or travel on or in a vehicle; "I ride to work in a bus"; "He rides the subway downtown every day" [ant: walk]
continue undisturbed and without interference; "Let it ride"
move like a floating object; "The moon rode high in the night sky"
harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally]
be sustained or supported or borne; "His glasses rode high on his nose"; "The child rode on his mother's hips"; "She rode a wave of popularity"; "The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name"
have certain properties when driven; "This car rides smoothly"; "My new truck drives well" [syn: drive]
be contingent on; "The outcomes rides on the results of the electin"; "Your grade will depends on your homework" [syn: depend on, devolve on, depend upon, turn on, hinge on, hinge upon]
lie moored or anchored; "Ship rides at anchor"
sit on and control a vehicle; "He rides his bicycle to work every day"; "She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town"
climb up on the body; "Shorts that ride up"; "This skirt keeps riding up my legs"
ride over, along, or through; "Travel the highways of America"; "Ride the freeways of California"
keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot; "Don't ride the clutch!"
copulate with; "The bull was riding the cow" [syn: mount]
See ride
Usage examples of "ridden".
Something hits me in the ribs like a stone, and another on the right arm, which drops down just as I was aiming at a young fellow with light hair that had ridden pretty close up, under a myall tree.
I bring these gifts to honor you, and I bring as well your daughter, who has ridden beside me from St.
She had said that the man she loved was dead and that she would never love another, and yet had turned around and ridden off with the prince.
Some portion of the party has ridden on, and I doubt they will return before nightfall.
Ungrian flank that had ridden away into the hills thundered in to hit the Quman flank, which was now all strung out in pursuit of the retreating banners.
Both Villam and Judith have ridden east to rally their marchlanders against the Quman threat.
Ekke-hard himself, and then by a latecomer, a nobleman wearing the heavy armor of shock cavalry who had just ridden up.
Today they had all been distracted by the man who had ridden into their territory and had given them such a splendid chase.
She had ridden the horse only for pleasure and for the satisfaction of at last being faster than the other girls in the herd.
Everyone knew it was near impossible to tame a winged horse, and this one must surely hate the rider that had ridden it so hard and so far.
Lewen helped her, and then unsaddled Argent, who was looking very bad-tempered, not liking being ridden for such a long time on such stony roads.
The men have ridden out to find her and bring her back, and they will, ye ken they will.
Mother had ridden him up when she came -- the first horse she ever rode, she said.
We had often ridden over to help at the muster of the large cattle stations that were on the side of the range, and not more than twenty or thirty miles from us.
I believe he could jump -- jump anything he was ridden at, and very few horses could get the better of him for one mile or three.