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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"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ride Herd
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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