Definition of Riding light

1. Noun. A light in the rigging of a ship that is riding at anchor.

Exact synonyms: Anchor Light, Riding Lamp
Generic synonyms: Light, Light Source

Lexicographical Neighbors of Riding Light

ridiculousness
ridiculousnesses
riding
riding bitt
riding boot
riding breeches
riding crop
riding crops
riding embolism
riding habit
riding habits
riding halter
riding halters
riding horse
riding lamp
riding light (current term)
riding master
riding mower
riding school
riding whip
ridings
ridley
ridleys
ridonkulous
ridotto
ridottoes
ridottos
rids
rie
riebeckite

Literary usage of Riding light

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

1. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1897)
"A riding light should not be placed where it is obscured riding light in any ... The forestay is a usual, and probably the best, place for a riding light in ..."

2. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1902)
"(/') Lighters lying at the usual barge moorings in the riser above Graves- end are not required to exhibit the riding light. The length of a vessel shall be ..."

3. The Law Relating to Waters, Sea, Tidal, and Inland: Including Rights and by Henry John Wastell Coulson, Urquhart Atwell Forbes (1902)
"(/') Lighters ly,ng at the usual barge moorings in the river above Graves- end are not required to exhibit the riding light. (••) Every steam vessel sailing ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1880)
"When there is a haze on the water which obscures the riding light at the elevation required by the Regulations, it seems to be doubtful whether a ship is, ..."

5. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1904)
"A riding light should not be placed where it is obscured in Ridin any direction by masts, spars, sails, or rigging. The forestay obscured. is a usual, ..."

6. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix Containing the by Reginald Godfrey Marsden, John William Mansfield (1891)
"riding light must not be obscured. Sheering about. by the maritime law a ship under way ... A riding light was first required by law in the year 1852 (A-). ..."

7. A Treatise on the Law of Collisions at Sea: With an Appendix, Containing by Reginald Godfrey Marsden (1885)
"But a tug moored to a boom anchored in a fair-way was held in fault for having no riding light lip (.r). (?) See supra, p. 329. E. 303 ; Kidson v. ..."

8. North Sea Pilot (eastern Shores): From Dunkerque to the Skaw by United States Hydrographic Office (1918)
"During bad weather the two lights 47 and 36 feet above the water will be lowered to heights of 39 and 29 feet, respectively; a riding light is shown. ..."

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