3. Used for riding, or when riding; devoted to riding; as, a riding
whip; a riding habit; a riding day.
Riding clerk. (a) A clerk who traveled for a commercial house. [Obs.
Eng.] (b) One of the "six clerks" formerly attached to the English
Court of Chancery. -- Riding hood. (a) A hood formerly worn by women
when riding. (b) A kind of cloak with a hood. -- Riding master, an
instructor in horsemanship. -- Riding rhyme (Pros.), the meter of five
accents, with couplet rhyme; -- probably so called from the mounted
pilgrims described in the Canterbury Tales. Dr. Guest. -- Riding
school, a school or place where the art of riding is taught.
Rid"ing, n. 1. The act or state of one who rides.