单词 | to ride and tie |
释义 | > as lemmasto ride and tie d. to ride and tie. Cf. also to ride in tie at tie n. 8e. extracted from ridev. (a) Of two (or occasionally three) people: to travel with one horse by alternately riding and walking, each person riding ahead for some distance and tying up the horse for the one following. In later use: to compete in an event involving shared alternate riding and running. ΚΠ 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. ii. 138 They were both setting out, having agreed to ride and tie; a Method of Travelling much used by two Persons who have but one Horse between them. View more context for this quotation 1793 J. Boswell Principal Corrections Life Johnson 1/2 Both of them used to talk..of this their first journey to London. Garrick, evidently meaning to embellish a little, said one day in my hearing, ‘We rode and tied.’ 1827 S. B. H. Judah Buccaneers I. ii. ii. 165 They can ride and tie, as did the worthy brethren Nehemiah Adams, and Zachariah Canter, who rode unto this wilderness in the glory of the Lord, on one steed. 1867 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) I. 176 I never rode and tied (especially with three) before or since. 1908 J. W. Fox Trail of Lonesome Pine xxvii. 331 We won't ‘ride and tie’ back to town—but I'll take turns with you on the horse. 1947 M. P. Willcocks True-born Englishman xiv. 156 The two men, Joseph and Adams, determine to ‘ride and tie’, travelling down to Somerset, using the horse the Parson has borrowed from his clerk. 1985 B. Johns What is this Madness 107 The women who ride and tie are an impressive group. 2008 R. Toor Personal Rec. viii. 35 While we're riding and tying, making our exchanges going up a 4-mile stretch..we are keeping up with a solitary runner. (b) In extended use: to alternate, to take turns. Now rare. ΚΠ 1770 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances V. dclxv. 249 I Quitted our agreeable Friends at Downe Yesterday with a good deal of Regret, and am riding and tying with myself up to Dublin as fast as I can hop, step, and jump. 1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets V. xxxiii. 274 If it [sc. the letter] be long, why we can ride and tie you know, cousin. You a bit and I a bit. 1806 H. Macneill Poems (new ed.) II. 138 Whan folk are sair put, they maun e'en ‘ride and tie’. 1894 G. B. Hill Harvard College iv. 67 In this way, riding and tying as it were, they scampered through the whole Thirty-nine Articles just in time. 1920 Postal Rec. Apr. 88/3 There is a filibuster going on here now over it, Senators riding and tying, so to speak, and filibustering against this bill. < as lemmas |
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