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ride fence

ride fence verb: to ride alongside the fence that borders a ranch, to identify and fix any breaches.

Verb

ride fence (third-person singular simple present rides fence, present participle riding fence, simple past rode fence, past participle ridden fence)

  1. To ride alongside the fence that borders a ranch, to identify and fix any breaches.
  2. (idiomatic) To proactively maintain or police social or personal boundaries.
  3. (idiomatic, proscribed) To sit on the fence; to remain neutral on a certain topic, to not have a stance or opinion.

Forms of ride fence

third-person singular presentrides fence
present participleriding fence
pastrode fence
past participleridden fence
alternative formride fences

Questions about ride fence

What does ride fence mean?
Ride fence means to ride alongside the fence that borders a ranch, to identify and fix any breaches.
What part of speech is ride fence?
Ride fence is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride fence?
The past tense of ride fence is rode fence.

Words near ride fence in the dictionary

  1. ride cymbal
  2. ride cymbals
  3. ride dirty
  4. ride down
  5. ride down on
  6. ride fence
  7. ride fences
  8. ride for
  9. ride hard
  10. ride hard and put away wet
  11. ride height

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