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ride and tie

verb · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

verb

Meaning 1

To take turns with another in labour and rest.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1941, Mary Grayson, interviewed in A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 122, After three or four days of walking we came across some more Negroes who had a horse, and mammy paid them to let us children ride and tie with their children for a day or two.

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verb

Meaning 2

To ride an animal and travel on foot alternately.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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History

Etymology

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 approaching on foot.