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Definition of Ridings
1. riding [n] - See also: riding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ridings
Literary usage of Ridings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick by Thomas Kemp Cartmell (1909)
"The ridings Family Some confusion has arisen as to the date when this family
settled in ... James ridings and two sons were on the tax lists in 1817; ..."
2. Constitution of Canada: The British North America Act, 1867; Its by Joseph Doutre (1880)
"The County of Bruce divided into Two ridings, to be called respectively the North
and South Hidings :— 44. The Provisional Judicial District of Algoma. 45. ..."
3. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1851)
"Power to Lord Lieutenant and Council to divide Counties into ridings. Power to
appoint Assistant Barrister for such ridings, and providing for Payment of ..."
4. The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, Comprising the Law Relative to by John Frederick Archbold (1840)
"The expenses of such county gaol, shall be paid out of the county rates of the
respective ridings or divisions, in the proportions already fixed, ..."
5. Publications by Lancashire Parish Register Society, Oneida historical society (1908)
"John s. to Jeffrey Barne Margery d. to Hughe Hope Edward s. to Edward ridings
Elizabeth d. to Adam Clough Roger Leez Housholder Elizabeth d. to Ric: Morris ..."
6. South London by Walter Besant (1899)
"CHAPTER V PAGEANTS AND ridings THE part which Processions of all kinds played in the
... As for the royal pageants and the Lord Mayor's ridings, it must be ..."
7. A New Display of the Beauties of England: Or A Description of the Most by Beatrix Farrand, Eliza Webber (1776)
"The ridings of this county^ each of which is as large as moft (hires, ... it from
the North Riding; and the Eaft and North ridings are fepa-ated by the D'. ..."
8. Catalogueby Colorado State Library by Colorado State Library (1884)
"Yorkshire, Past and Present : a History and a Description of the Three ridings
of the Great County of York, from the Earliest Ages to-the Year 1870 ..."
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