Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
riding .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of three ancient divisions of a county in England; -- now called
riding .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of three ancient
divisions of acounty inEngland ; ariding .
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Examples
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They said, too, it was bad counsel that Rognvald should lay himself out to fight against Thorfinn with that force which he could get from two lots of the isles, when Thorfinn had a trithing and Caithness, and a great share of Scotland and all the Southern isles.
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And after that earl Thorfinn sent men out into the isles, and asked for that trithing from earl Rognvald, which earl Einar Wrymouth had owned.
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Einar having the control of both; and Thorfinn got his trithing, [6] managing it by his men, who collected his scatt and tolls under
Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns James Gray
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