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Riding vs Ridging - What's the difference?

riding | ridging |

As verbs the difference between riding and ridging

is that riding is present participle of lang=en while ridging is present participle of ridge.

As nouns the difference between riding and ridging

is that riding is a path cut through woodland while ridging is a pattern of ridges.

riding

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • A path cut through woodland.
  • The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
  • * 1853 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)
    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings , and shootings, and boatings.
  • (obsolete) A festival procession.
    • (Chaucer)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl), from (etyl) * (wikipedia riding)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Historically]], one of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern [[county, counties of England.
  • (Canada) Electoral district or constituency.

    • Derived terms

    * (Canada) riding association

    See also

    * wapentake

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    ridging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A pattern of ridges.
  • * 1853 , Robert Jameson, The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
    • I observed that a moulding descended obliquely from this entrance down to the bottom, while striae followed the same line, the whole sides indeed being marked by curious scoopings, and intermediate ridgings

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