单词 | riding school |
释义 | riding schooln. An establishment where horse riding is taught, (now) often also providing a livery service and horses for hire. Also: an arena, typically enclosed, used for riding lessons or training horses. Cf. riding establishment n. at riding n.1 Compounds 3.In earlier use frequently: such an establishment for the instruction of cavalry troops. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > riding school riding house1631 manage1655 riding schoola1680 manège1705 school1705 managery1782 society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [adjective] > relating to a riding school riding house1631 riding schoola1680 a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 206 Riding-schools inculcate Horsemanship. c1721 W. Gibson True Method dieting Horses xiii. 195 There is nothing tends more to the Advantage of our Troops than the Exercise of the Riding-School. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 349 Like a man who should spend his whole time in a riding school,..but never get a horse to ride upon. 1833 Regulations Instr. Cavalry i. ii. 40 The use of an Open Manege is indispensable in quarters where there is no riding-school. 1885 J. Ruskin Præterita I. v. 158 My father spared time..to take me to..a riding-school in Moorfields. 1904 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 280 The sun-splashed gloom of the riding-school. 1976 National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 7/1 Rent-a-horse service is available from a riding school next door. 1999 Horse & Rider Sept. 26/1 ‘Legs on!’ is a command which resounds several times a day round the walls of most riding schools, yet few instructors will take the trouble to explain. Compounds General attributive. ΚΠ 1799 Standing Orders for 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons 41 They [sc. rough riders] must be..well-behaved men,..who are likely to carry a proper command in their Riding-school business. 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. xii. 144 This was the last of our equestrian expeditions beyond the limits of the riding-school grounds. 1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 5 He sat his horse in the perfection of riding-school attitudes. 1922 G. Gibbs House of Mohun vii. 110 A little of the curb and they'll come down to riding-school manners. 1977 N. Marsh Last Ditch i. 14 Who..is the girl in the garden with the children? Isn't she the riding-school girl? 2000 Petcare Jan.–Feb. 6/3 To keep the riding school horses sane through the winter, we lunge or free school them once a week. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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