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common ridings

common ridings is the plural 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

Noun capitalized: Common Ridings

Common Ridings

  1. (plural) plural of Common Riding

Questions about common ridings

What is common ridings the plural of?
Common ridings is the plural of common riding.
What part of speech is common ridings?
Common ridings is a noun.

Words near common ridings in the dictionary

  1. common rhea
  2. common rheas
  3. common rhododendron
  4. common rhododendrons
  5. common riding
  6. common ridings
  7. common ringed plover
  8. common ringlet
  9. common ringlets
  10. common roach
  11. common rock thrush

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