单词 | ridered |
释义 | rideredadj. 1. U.S. Of a fence: strengthened with riders (rider n. 12d). Chiefly in staked and ridered (cf. staked adj. and stake-and-ridered at stake n.1 2c). Now rare (historical).In quot. 1833 perhaps parasynthetic; in quot. 1852: (of a building) having a fence strengthened in this way. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [adjective] > that will serve as a fence > having a fence or paling > of specific construction (of fence) stake-and-ridered1829 ridered1833 dogleg1836 staked and ridered1852 hog-tight1858 staked-and-bound1861 doglegged1891 1833 Genessee Farmer (Rochester, N.Y.) 21 Dec. 401/3 A common fence, though eight rails high and double ridered, is no bar to the practice of steering across lots. 1852 Trans. Michigan Agric. Soc. 3 333 The staked and ridered domicil. 1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 544/2 The staked and ridered rail-fence. 1946 G. Foreman Last Trek of Indians 169 All their farms were inclosed with good rail fences sufficiently high to secure their crops, many of them ‘staked and ridered’. 1981 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 71 500 (caption) Ohio settler building a staked and ridered worm fence. 2. Mining. Of rock: penetrated or enclosed by offshoots of a vein. Cf. rider n. 11a, horse n. 11a. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [adjective] > obstruction ridered1839 1839 J. Phillips Treat. Geol. II. viii. 131 Such portions of the neighbouring rocks are called ‘rider’, and being frequently traversed and impregnated by the vein substances, acquire a characteristic aspect;..such bounding rocks are said to be ‘ridered’. 1845 J. Phillips & C. G. B. Daubeny Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. VI. 771/1 A rock thus penetrated by strings is sometimes said to be ridered. 1920 A. H. Fay Gloss. Mining & Mineral Industry 570/1 Ridered, relating to the country-rock of a vein when impregnated by the vein materials in strings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1833 |
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