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RIDING-CROP

Date "RIDING-CROP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1891. (references)


Specialty Definition: RIDING-CROP

DomainDefinition

Industry

With, generally, a short leather loop in place of a lash. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: RIDING-CROP

"RIDING-CROP" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "RIDING-CROP" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)66.67%2245,945
Adjective (general or positive)33.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%3N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: RIDING-CROP

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "RIDING-CROP": foxhead-and-riding-crop.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: RIDING-CROP

Language Translations for "RIDING-CROP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

ridepisk. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

rijzweep. (various references)

   

French

  

cravache (riding whip). (various references)

   

German

  

Reitpeitsche (riding whip). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

μαστίγιο ιππασίας. (various references)

   

Italian

  

frustino (crop, horsewhip, quirt, riding crop, riding whip, whip). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

iding-cropray

   

Portuguese

  

pingalim (horsewhip). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

fusta (crop, riding crop, riding whip, whip). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: RIDING-CROP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-g-i-i-n-o-p-r-r"

-2 letters: gridiron.

-3 letters: cording, crinoid, gonidic, porcini, pricing, priding, ripcord.

-4 letters: coding, congii, coping, coring, dicing, doping, indigo, ironic, nordic, origin, pidgin, pionic, pirogi, pongid, poring, ricing, riding, riping, roping.

-5 letters: cirri, coign, corgi, dingo, doing, gipon, giron, grind, groin, icing, incog, indri, iodic, iodin, ionic, iring, oping, orcin, orgic, orpin, piing, pingo, pirog, poind.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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