What is "ridings"

Usage examples of "ridings".

Over torn-up slates and boards and their crossbreeds, through a low nightlit forest of flues steeples watertowers, in ridings not my own.

The ridings of the city relied on Booktown’s Grand Gears Library, and paid premiums to ensure their borrowing rights.

Other ridings copied the practice, though perhaps without such stern supervision.

She speculated that there would be subdued parties speckled across the ridings that night.

Engineers in the other ridings would respond, firing up the massive winches that would haul back on one or other of the submerged chains.

Sounds came from Dry Fall and Thee-And-Thine ridings: drinking and everything that went with it.

There were still bridges linking the ridings to the haunted quarter, old and unused, put in place unknown numbers of years ago and tenaciously refusing to become dust.

But Hedrigall’s dissident ghost stalked the ridings, and the triumph, the excitement with which the journey had started, was gone.

Tales of mass orgies by the occupying troops were rampant, and the ridings nearest the border were reported to be model and faithful citizens of the "New Empire" to a frightening degree.

At midsummer 1936 he gave up his post and rented a gamekeeper's cottage at Stowe Ridings on the Stowe estate.

But the marshaling of his troops had sorely tried the supply capabilities of all the North and East Ridings, nor had the situation been in any manner helped by the incursion of the Crusader army from France.