The Collaborative International Dictionary
Riding \Rid"ing\, a.
Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk. ``One riding apparitor.''
--Ayliffe.Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
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Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day. Riding clerk.
A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs. Eng.]
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One of the ``six clerks'' formerly attached to the English Court of Chancery. Riding hood.
A hood formerly worn by women when riding.
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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.
WordNet
n. a school where horsemanship is taught and practiced
Usage examples of "riding school".
Right, my lad, whoever you are, I thought, if I come through this it'll be strange if I can't bring you to the rings at the riding school, and we'll see your backbone when the farrier-sergeant takes the cat to you.
Bryant tells me that I went out to the riding school that morning wattled like a turkey cock.
He was fresh, having had no exercise since the previous Sunday and he was still young enough not to be as jaded as most riding school hacks.
Now she had other people to manage her stables for her: she saw to the finances of the farm, kept an eye on the function of the riding school that also was based on her land, and otherwise lived the life of a moderately well-to-do countrywoman.
The end of the line now reached as far back as the riding school and beyond.
It's still called Zephyr Farm Stables, but the riding school has been dosed for years and years.
She very much liked her new employers who had actively sought her out in consequence of the publicity given to the riding school fire.
Very like Peter Rammileese's covered riding school, I thought, only smaller.
We looked in at a fandango, one of the famous public dances held in the sala, or ballroom, at one side of the Plaza-it was simply a great hall, bare as a riding school, with benches against either wall, one side for men, t'other for women, and a dais at one end for the musicians, a demented group of grinning greasers who thrashed away on bandolins, guitars, tambourines and drums.
The destrier type still hangs on, but is now seen mostly in the grand equestrian schools such as the Spanish Riding School.
Then, with a new gentile German wife, he emigrated to Cairo and set up a riding school.
The master saddler of an army riding school, Fritz Dagover had been the ranking official on duty when a drunken army sports instructor snuck a Generalmajor's horse from the stable.