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ˈriding ˈofficer Now Hist.
[riding ppl. a.]
A mounted revenue-officer.
1707J. Chamberlayne St. Gt. Brit. 501 Surveyor General of the Riding Officers in Kent and Sussex, to hinder the Exportation of Wool by the Owlers. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5040/6 Some of the Riding Officers of the Customs. 1792C. Smith Desmond III. 171 Rewarded your merit, and made you a riding-officer. 1844Regul. & Ord. Army 284 A Service of ten years from the period of their joining the Corps of Riding Officers. 1862Illustr. Lond. News 11 Jan. 51/2 The other day died..the last of the English ‘riding officers’. |