Definition of Ride herd

1. Verb. Driving animals such as horses and cattle while riding along with them. "Joe was riding herd during the day"

Generic synonyms: Ride, Sit

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ride Herd

riddlers
riddles
riddling
riddlings
ride a horse foaled by an acorn
ride along
ride alongs
ride away
ride cymbal
ride cymbals
ride down
ride height
ride heights
ride herd (current term)
ride herd on
ride horseback
ride off
ride one's luck
ride out
ride roughshod
ride roughshod over
ride shotgun
ride tall in the saddle
ride the bench
ride the coattails
ride the pine
ride the rails

Literary usage of Ride herd

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Documents of Dissent: Chinese Political Thought Since Mao by James Chester Cheng (1980)
"In my view, many of these people will in the future drive away the Americans who ride herd on them because Japan is really a great nation. ..."

2. Arizona, the Wonderland: The History of Its Ancient Cliff and Cave Dwellings by George Wharton James (1917)
"... ride out with the boys after stock, " ride herd " at night, help in, or watch, the processes of " cutting out," branding, etc., and then to partake in ..."

3. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"(To JACK.) Commenting humorously—hiding the chalk and so on. LEW. (As he goes up.) Lit up a little I suppose. JACK. (Nodding.) Just "ride herd"1 on him. ..."

4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"The boys here wanted a eatin'-joint, bein' tired of the local hash, which I honest can tell yu' was most dam bad; so they gets her down here to ride herd on ..."

5. Power and Market by Murray N. Rothbard (2006)
"The inefficient achieve a legal claim to ride herd on the efficient. This is all the more true since those who succeed in any ..."

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