different between riding vs ridging

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

English

Verb

ridging

1. present participle of ridge

Noun

ridging (plural ridgings)

1. A pattern of ridges.
   • 1853, Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

     I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings […]

Anagrams

• dirging, girding, griding