Emily Dickinson Lexicon

RID'ING, n.

1. A road cut in a wood or through a ground, for the diversion of riding therein. – Sidney. Encyc.
2. [corrupted from trithing, third.] One of the three intermediate jurisdictions between a three and a hundred, into which the county of York, in England, is divided, anciently under the government of a reeve. – Blackstone.