(n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding.
(a.) Employed to travel; traveling; as, a riding clerk.
(a.) Used for riding on; as, a riding horse.
(a.) Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
(n.) The act or state of one who rides.
(n.) A festival procession.
(n.) Same as Ride, n., 3.
(n.) A district in charge of an excise officer.
Example Sentences:
(1) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(2) These lanes encourage cyclists to 'ride in the gutter' which in itself is a very dangerous riding position – especially on busy congested roads as it places the cyclist right in a motorist's blind spot.
(3) My father wrote to the official who had ruled I could not ride and asked for Championships to be established for girls.
(4) The commission heard AWH charged luxury accommodation in Queensland, limousine rides and Liberal party donations to Sydney Water.
(5) The following year, I organised and took part in a cycle ride from John O'Groats to Land's End, covering 900 miles in nine days through this beautiful country.
(6) Each moment was scripted, from the placement of his riding boots in the stirrups of the riderless black horse that accompanied his procession through Washington, to tonight’s burial at sunset back in California.
(7) Yu Xiangzhen, former Red Guard Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian Almost half a century on, it floods back: the hope, the zeal, the carefree autumn days riding the rails with fellow teenagers.
(8) For services to Business and the community in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
(9) Unless a leader is riding 20 points high in the polls, speculation will mount about their fitness for the job.
(10) It’s unthinkable that they wouldn’t do that.” The Saw ride at Thorpe Park in Surrey and the Dragon’s Fury and Rattlesnake rollercoasters at Chessington World of Adventures, also in Surrey, have also been shut down by Merlin Entertainments, which owns all three parks.
(11) Didi Chuxing also claims it accounts for 87% of China’s ride-hailing market, in which US-based Uber is trying to break through.
(12) The voices in the soundtrack are those of real refugees who guide the viewer through the experience – from arriving in an unfamiliar city to acute worry for loved ones left behind, concern about not being allowed to work, and the Home Office interview on which so much rides .
(13) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
(14) Frahm witnessed how every morning Weiwei puts a flower into the basket of a bicycle just outside his studio, which he will continue until he is free again to ride it out through the gates.
(15) Conte’s tenure as national manager has been anything other than a smooth ride.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Locals sell fruit and cuscus, a possum-like marsupial, at the market in Lorengau Not long before the accident, witness said, the driver had been riding around with local women and another taskforce officer, drinking and “not fully clothed”, as Guardian Australia reported on Monday .
(17) The ride-sharing story illustrates the promise of these new businesses – and the dangers.
(18) The Campbell family has been breeding ponies in Glenshiel for more than 100 years and now runs a small pony trekking centre offering one-hour treks along the pebbly shores of Loch Duich and through the Ratagan forest as well as all-day trail rides up into the hills for the more adventurous.
(19) One team told her the sponsor had dropped out so she would have to ride for nothing.
(20) In addition, each ride has specific risk assessments to ensure that these processes are current.” He added: “As well as the daily assessment and testing, all rides are verified regularly by independent inspectors in compliance with the HSE guidelines for safe operation.
Woodland
Definition:
(n.) Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber.
(a.) Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan.
Example Sentences:
(1) 100 BC to AD 250) sites, suggesting a Middle to Late Woodland change in population structure that lowered levels of morphological variation.
(2) Celebrity woodlanders Tax breaks and tree-hugging already draw the wealthy and well-known to buy British forests.
(3) In the woodlands between Moravia, Lower Austria and Bohemia, mentioned by Ptolemaios under the Celtic name "Gabreta" (wild goats' wood, cf.
(4) The 12 additional arthropod species recorded from the woodland mice consisted of 1 nidicolous beetle, Leptinus orientamericanus; 1 bot, Cuterebra fontinella; 3 fleas, Ctenophthalmus pseudagyrtes, Orchopeas leucopus and Peromyscopsylla scotti; 1 tick, Dermacentor variabilis; 2 mesostigmatid mites, Androlaelaps fahrenholzi and Ornithonyssus bacoti; 3 chiggers, Comatacarus americanus, Euschoengastia peromysci, and Leptotrombidium peromysci; and 1 undescribed pygmephorid mite of the genus Pygmephorus.
(5) Seven months later the upper half of his torso was found buried in woodland in West Sussex.
(6) In an area where California encephalitis is endemic, 10 of 19 small woodland animals (53%), which are the natural hosts of A. triseriatus, had hemagglutination-inhibiting and neutralizing antibodies to La Crosse virus.
(7) "We've got to be tough and robust in saying to people you are not in a downtrodden village or woodland, because many of them don't even live in areas where there are toilets or refuse collection facilities," he said.
(8) They will still be an important part of British woodlands, but we will be favouring the broadleaved trees in many areas," said Peter Brett, operations manager for the Forestry Commission in Dorset.
(9) He said: "Britain is not producing graduates with the expertise needed to identify and control plant diseases in our farms and woodlands."
(10) A handsome pair of strippedback brick apartment buildings will frame a forthcoming bridge across the river, leading to a woodland park beyond.
(11) • One mile from the A646 between Halifax and Hebden Bridge mrsfifties Puzzlewood, Gloucestershire Photograph: Alamy One of the most magical woodland walks I have come across.
(12) Stewart Snape, of its plant health service, said: "We know there could be OPM [oak processionary moth] in the woodland because we found a nest in it last year.
(13) The vast majority of the public oppose the government's plan to sell off all or part of the publicly owned forests and woodland in England.
(14) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(15) The panel has been asked to look at all areas of forestry in England, including increasing woodland cover, public access, protection of wildlife, the Forestry Commission and the public forest estate.
(16) Sue Holden, chief executive at the Woodland Trust, welcomed the report and Paterson's promise on the register, but said more funding was needed if plant health was to reach parity with animal health.
(17) I like the challenges that come with those that thrive in such adverse conditions, and there are plenty: woodland species that make the most of what little sunlight hits the leaf litter; ferns that like dripping cave mouths and cliff faces cast in gloom; and small shrubs that eke out a living under bigger things, such as butcher’s broom ( Ruscus aculeatus ) and fragrant sweet box ( sarcoccoca ).
(18) The goddess Diana and her nymphs are bathing in a woodland pool when the hunter Actaeon chances by.
(19) When you come to a crossroads with the main drive ahead of you, head straight for a short distance and then take the marked path through the woodland on the right.
(20) The original version incorrectly described a Woodland Trust wood in Suffolk as new.