'To ride down' definitions:
Definition of 'To ride down'
From: GCIDE
- Ride \Ride\, v. t.
- 1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to ride a bicycle. [1913 Webster]
- [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. [1913 Webster]
- The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. [1913 Webster]
- Tue only men that safe can ride Mine errands on the Scottish side. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or fractured fragments. [1913 Webster]
- To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or subject of talk.
- To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and rest; -- 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 coming up on foot. --Fielding.
- To ride down. (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy. (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a sail.
- To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm) while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea; as, to ride out the gale. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To ride down'
- Ride,
- Riding,
- To ride out,
- ride off,
- ride out,
- Riding buckler,
- Riding clerk,
- Riding hood,
- Riding master,
- Riding rhyme,
- Riding school,
- To ride a hobby,
- To ride a portoise,
- To ride and tie,
- To ride easy,
- To ride hard,
- To ride post,
- To ride roughshod,
- To ride the stang,
- To ride to hounds,
- endurance riding,
- horseback riding,
- let ride,
- pack riding,
- ride away,
- ride herd,
- ride horseback,
- ride roughshod,
- ride roughshod over,
- ride the bench,
- ride the lightning,
- ride to hounds,
- riding bitt,
- riding boot,
- riding breeches,
- riding crop,
- riding habit,
- riding horse,
- riding lamp,
- riding light,
- riding mower,
- trail riding,
- To ride shank's mare,
- Devil's riding-horse,
- cross-country riding,
- little red riding hood