Word.ws English Dictionary

ride the three-legged mare

ride the three-legged mare verb: to be executed by hanging.

Verb

ride the three-legged mare (third-person singular simple present rides the three-legged mare, present participle riding the three-legged mare, simple past rode the three-legged mare, past participle ridden the three-legged mare)

  1. (UK, euphemistic, historical, slang) To be executed by hanging.

Forms of ride the three-legged mare

third-person singular presentrides the three-legged mare
present participleriding the three-legged mare
pastrode the three-legged mare
past participleridden the three-legged mare

Questions about ride the three-legged mare

What does ride the three-legged mare mean?
Ride the three-legged mare means to be executed by hanging.
What part of speech is ride the three-legged mare?
Ride the three-legged mare is a verb.
What is the past tense of ride the three-legged mare?
The past tense of ride the three-legged mare is rode the three-legged mare.

Words near ride the three-legged mare in the dictionary

  1. ride the pony
  2. ride the rail
  3. ride the rails
  4. ride the rods
  5. ride the short bus
  6. ride the three-legged mare
  7. ride the tiger
  8. ride the wave
  9. ride to hounds
  10. ride up
  11. ride up on

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ride the three-legged mare (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ride the three-legged mare.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ride_the_three-legged_mare. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.