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ride and tie

ride and tie verb: to take turns with another in labour and rest.

Verb

ride and tie (third-person singular simple present rides and ties, present participle riding and tying, simple past rode and tied, past participle ridden and tied)

  1. To take turns with another in labour and rest.
    • Mr. Adams discharged the Bill, and they were both setting out, having agreed to ride and tie: a Method of travelling much used by Persons who have but one Horse between them […]1742, Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews, 3rd edition, London: A. Millar, published 1743, Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 100
    • If those who vote the supplies are the same persons who receive the supplies when voted, and are to account for the expenditure of those supplies to those who voted them, it is themselves accountable to themselves, and the Comedy of Errors concludes with the Pantomine of HUSH. Neither the...1791, Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, London: J.S. Jordan, page 64
  2. To ride an animal and travel on foot alternately.

Forms of ride and tie

third-person singular presentrides and ties
present participleriding and tying
pastrode and tied
past participleridden and tied

Origin of ride and tie

From the expedient adopted by two persons with one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain distance and then ties him for the use of the other, who is approaching on foot.

Questions about ride and tie

What does ride and tie mean?
Ride and tie means to take turns with another in labour and rest.
What part of speech is ride and tie?
Ride and tie is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride and tie?
The past tense of ride and tie is rode and tied.

Words near ride and tie in the dictionary

  1. ride a horse foaled by an acorn
  2. ride a horse foaled of an acorn
  3. ride a rantipole
  4. ride along
  5. ride alongs
  6. ride and tie
  7. ride bitch
  8. ride by
  9. ride cymbal
  10. ride cymbals
  11. ride dirty

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