different between raiding vs riding

English

Verb

raiding

1. present participle of raid

Noun

raiding (plural raidings)

1. The act of carrying out a raid.
   • 1995, Inga Clendinnen, Aztecs: An Interpretation (page 172)

     These raidings and counter-raidings continued over a brief pre-war season, the wives being paraded and used in the same way as captured 'outsider' women.

Anagrams

• gradini

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??a?d??/
• Rhymes: -a?d??
• Hyphenation: rid?ing

Etymology 1

From Middle English rydyng; equivalent to ride +? -ing.

Verb

riding

1. present participle of ride

Noun

riding (countable and uncountable, plural ridings)

1. A path cut through woodland.
2. The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
   • 1853, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)

     I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings.

3. (obsolete) A festival procession.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

Derived terms

• horseriding

Etymology 2

From trithing, from Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriðing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”). The folk etymology that connects the term to the area a horse-rider could cover in a single day is incorrect, but may have influenced the spelling and pronunciation. Cognate with English trithing.

Noun

riding (plural ridings)

1. (historical) Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England.
2. (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.

Derived terms

• East Riding, East Riding of Yorkshire
• North Riding, North Riding of Yorkshire
• (Canada) riding association
• West Riding, West Riding of Yorkshire

Translations

See also

• wapentake

Anagrams

• Ingrid, grid-in

Middle English

Noun

riding

1. Alternative form of rydyng