| 单词 | out of ride |
| 释义 | > as lemmasout of ride P3. U.S. out of ride: (of a river) too swollen to be able to be crossed on horseback. Now rare. ΚΠ 1855 M. E. Wormeley Our Cousin Veronica xvi. 297 The river is full and rising, but not ‘out of ride’, as several persons have crossed it since the morning. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) at Riding Rock A stream is said to be ‘out of ride’ when it is past fording [on horseback]. 1918 S. Ely Centennial Hist. Villages Iroquois & Montgomery 23 [Quoting talk given in 1879] ‘Stop, stop, that stream is out of ride.’ That was something I had not heard before and I did not know what it meant... I backed my horse around and got out of the stream. < as lemmas |
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