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Ridings
- noun - The county of Yorkshire is divided into
three administrative districts called
Ridings - North, East and West.
The term Riding comes from Thirding.
- the sport of siting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements
- travel by being carried on horseback
Ridleys
- noun - a marine turtle
- Nicholas Ridley (c. 1500 – 16 October 1555) was an English Bishop of London (the only bishop called "Bishop of London and Westminster".
Riffles
- noun - a small wave on the surface of a liquid
- look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume"
- shuffle (playing cards) by separating the deck into two parts and riffling with the thumbs so the cards intermix
- shuffling by splitting the pack and interweaving the two halves at their corners
- stir up (water) so as to form ripples
- twitch or flutter; "the paper flicked"
Riggers
- noun - a long slender pointed sable brush used by artists
- a sailing vessel with a specified rig; "a square rigger"
- someone who rigs ships
- someone who works on an oil rig
Rigours
- noun - excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
- something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
- the quality of being valid and rigorous
Rigouts
- noun - a person's costume (especially if bizarre); "What a queer rigout!"
Rimless
- adjective - lacking a rim or frame; "rimless glasses"
Ringers
- noun - (horseshoes) the successful throw of a horseshoe or quoit so as to encircle a stake or peg
- a contestant entered in a competition under false pretenses
- a person who is almost identical to another
- a person who rings church bells (as for summoning the congregation)
Rioters
- noun - troublemaker who participates in a violent disturbance of the peace; someone who rises up against the constituted authority
Riotous
- adjective - characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood"
- produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming"
- To make a riot
- unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women"