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ˈridding, vbl. n.
[f. rid v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of clearing or removing.
1347–8Durh. Acc. Rolls II. 545 In exp. factis in Ryddyng stagni de Fery. a1400–50Alexander 2244 Ȝoure corage to bend, And in ridding of oure riche toun ȝour reuth for to call. 1481–90Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 507 For the stubbyng and ryddyng all a long the pale off the long pond. 1501Church-w. Acc., Yatton (Somerset Rec. Soc.) 125 For rydyng of gotters of y⊇ chyrch and y⊇ gargells. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Ablaqueatio, the riddyng or clensinge of trees in maner aboue mencioned. 1630Brasenose Coll. Munim. Q 3. 104 Charges for the Riddinge of the Lanne betwixt Brasnnose and Excestre Colledge Garden. 1666Pepys Diary 16 Aug., I fell to the ridding away of a great deale of business. c1850J. Gemmel in Mem. R. Craig (1862) 250 A thorough ridding of the marches between what is changeable and what is unchangeable. 1875Ure's Dict. Arts III. 704 Ridding,..a term used in the Newcastle coal-field for the operation of separating the iron ore from the coal-shale. 1897Longman's Mag. Mar. 441 The marble seam..is easily obtained by ‘open ridding’.
b. Separation of combatants. Also attrib.
1500in I. S. Leadam Star Chamber Cases (Selden Soc.) 111 The seid Thomas..came..onely for the Riddyng of the seid assauute & fray. 1721Kelly Scot. Prov. 159 He who meddles with Quarrels, gets the ridding Stroke.
c. Deliverance, setting free. rare—1.
1648Sanderson Serm. II. 234 For..the ridding of our selves and others from troubles.
2. A cleared piece of ground; a clearing. (Now only in local names.) north.
1586Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1860) 140, I will that Barnard Dowthwhet haue the newe mower, with my parte in the fer ryddynges. 1651MS. Indenture, Yorks., 9 selions lying together in one field called the Rydings. 1827Hodgson Hist. Northumb. II. i. 94 note, It is plain that a ridding is pure English for assartum. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Dial., Ridding... More frequently met with in local names, or in documents, than in modern expression.
†3. pl. Clearings, refuse. Obs. rare—1.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. ii. x. (1622) 152 In a Tumbrell which carried away the riddings of Gardens.
4. (See rid n.1 2, quot. 1827.) |