high-ridingadj.

1766 R. Andrews tr. Virgil Georgics iii. in Wks. 94 Thence, when high riding Sol [L. quarta..hora] collects his fires, And shrill cicadas murmur thro' the shrubs: Send to the wells your flocks.

1834 Atkinson's Casket Nov. 498/1 She..like the sea shallop, glides now from islet to islet, then chases from billow to surge the high riding coral.

1886 Athenaeum 22 May 685/3 The misty lustre of a high-riding moon, reveals a great plain strewn with French soldiers.

1935 Flying Mag. Apr. 231/3 When you are flying on one of the high-riding airliners..Try and whistle the scale... It just can't be done..air's too thin.

1979 Associated Press Newswire (Nexis) 7 Apr. The Coast Guard closed Newark Bay as winds clocked at 50 mph created hazards for high-riding vessels.

2005 R. Caine Chill Factor 137 I looked up and found the sky clear, laced with a few high-riding cirrus clouds.

1876 Liverpool Mercury 12 Jan. 2/7 (advt.) Handsome and superior-built High-riding Drag.

1956 Pop. Sci. July 80/1 Scientific exploration for rich oil fields lying below the Gulf of Mexico extends to lagoons and tidal flats close ashore. Specially built for the job is this high-riding buggy that can roam in water 18 feet deep.

1964 Times 21 Feb. 14/7 The Jag. was a low-slung chariot... Fortunately, there were other cars.., most of them high-riding cars that straddled the irregularities.

1984 T. C. Boyle Budding Prospects (1985) iii. vii. 200 I swung into the lot with a crunch of gravel and found a parking spot between two glistening, high-riding pickups.

2013 Lincs. Echo (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Motors section) 10 Body roll, the dynamic nemesis of high-riding 4x4 vehicles, is very well controlled.

1831 Herald to Trades' Advocate 21 May 550 Every master, says this high-riding correspondent of yours, has a right to offer for labour what he pleases.

1853 Scotsman 9 Feb. 3/3 They seem to have forget [sic] the Protestant doctrine of the people being the church, and..adopted the Romish dogma, that it is the clergy with their high riding commission, and not the inhabitants of Edinburgh, who constitute the Established Kirk.

1918 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 21 Dec. 4/1 The German militarist victorious was a high-riding, vicious, unbridled beast.

2008 A. Gordon-Reed Hemingses of Monticello xxvii. 585 Louisa, a high-riding snob, went far beyond disliking Jefferson; she despised him, pronouncing him ‘ungainly, ugly and common’.

1921 National Police Jrnl. Apr. 6/1 Since the crime wave began there has been much said about the ‘molls’ and the part they have played in the recent activities of New York's high-riding criminals.

1940 Princeton Alumni Weekly 19 Jan. 348/2 The varsity football team, beaten only by the high-riding Cornell powerhouse, took the Big Three diadem for the first time since 1935.

1969 Economist 8 Mar. 43/1 The once high-riding American conglomerate corporations have been falling from grace for some time.

2010 Daily Star (Nexis) 13 Mar. 48 Villa expect a stern test today when they tackle high-riding Stoke.