ˈriding-rod
[riding vbl. n.]
A rod or switch used in riding.
| 1555 Rutland MSS. (1905) IV. 376 Paid for ij ryding⁓roddes of bone for my Ladie, and other thinges, xxijd. 1573 L. Lloyd Marrow of Hist. (1653) 30 A little round Circle which Popilius made with his riding Rod. 1624 Capt. Smith Virginia iii. v. 59 A fish..[with] a long tayle like a ryding rodde. 1658 tr. Bergerac's Sat. Charact. xxxiii. 116 May we not take his riding-rod for death's standard. 1820 Scott Abbot xix, She holds up her riding-rod as if she would lay it about some of their ears. |