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Common-Riding

Common-Riding is the alternative form of common riding.

Meaning of common riding

Noun

common riding (plural common ridings)

  1. An annual festival in some Scottish towns, in which people conduct a ceremonial procession around the boundaries of the town in order to delineate the area and check for encroachment by neighbouring landowners.
    • It was this folk-moot which instituted the common riding and invested it with all the religious ceremonial which primitive religion attached to every event in the life of its votaries.1898 July, W. E. Wilson, chapter 1514, in The Border Magazine, volume 3, number 30, page 140

Forms of Common-Riding

pluralCommon-Ridings

Questions about Common-Riding

What is Common-Riding the alternative form of?
Common-Riding is the alternative form of common riding.

Words near Common-Riding in the dictionary

  1. common-or-garden
  2. common-place
  3. common-placed
  4. common-places
  5. common-placing
  6. Common-Riding
  7. Common-Ridings
  8. common-sense
  9. common-sensical
  10. common-site picketing
  11. common-situs picketing

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