What is "to ride and tie"

Ride \Ride\, v. t.

1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle.

   [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind.
   --Milton.

2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.

   The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers.
   --Swift.

3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.

   Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side.
   --Sir W. Scott.

4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk. To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who is coming up on foot. --Fielding. To ride down.

   1. To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy.

   2. (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.

      To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale.

Tie \Tie\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tied(Obs. Tight); p. pr. & vb. n. Tying.] [OE. ti?en, teyen, AS. t[=i]gan, ti['e]gan, fr. te['a]g, te['a]h, a rope; akin to Icel. taug, and AS. te['o]n to draw, to pull. See Tug, v. t., and cf. Tow to drag.]

1. To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind. ``Tie the kine to the cart.''
   --1 Sam. vi. 7.

   My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother: bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
   --Prov. vi. 20,21.

2. To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace, or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot. ``We do not tie this knot with an intention to puzzle the argument.''
   --Bp. Burnet.

3. To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

   In bond of virtuous love together tied.
   --Fairfax.

4. To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.

   Not tied to rules of policy, you find Revenge less sweet than a forgiving mind.
   --Dryden.

5. (Mus.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line, or by a curved line, or slur, drawn over or under them.

6. To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with. To ride and tie. See under Ride. To tie down.

   1. To fasten so as to prevent from rising.

   2. To restrain; to confine; to hinder from action.

      To tie up, to confine; to restrain; to hinder from motion or action.