ride, verb

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Calque formed on Afrikaans ry drive, ride, convey.
1. transitive. a. To convey or transport (goods or substances). b. In the phrase to ride transport, to work as a carrier; kurvey. See also transport-rider, transport-riding.
Note:
Also U.S. English in sense a.
1862 Abstracts in Cape Stat. p.viProhibition against overworking cattle in riding wood, and thus rendering them unfit for the plough.
1866 E.L. Price Jrnls (1956) 218Roger has had a very hard and busy time with the Dam-making. The soil proves too sandy — and he has been obliged to get Seidras to ride earth from other place[s] round about.
1870 E. Prov. Herald 9 Aug.First you sift your earth, and then sieve in water with the gravel on the table to be sorted...Two casks of water will last you all day, and that will save riding earth all day.
1878 Cape Parl. Papers in R. Ross Adam Kok’s Griquas (1976) 110I also reaped 30 bags of mealies, selling them at 12s.;..riding transport as work permits.
1880 Alice Times 30 Jan.It is a common thing to hear farmers..complain that they have to ride water for household uses a distance of eight or ten miles.
1897 E. Glanville Tales from Veld 26I want you to ‘ride’ a load of wood to the house.
1905 P. Gibbon Vrouw Grobelaar 67The man was clean mad, and, in spite of all we could do,..he rode her to the dorp and married her there.
1911 P. Gibbon Margaret Harding 61When I was a young man I rode transport...Then I travelled.
1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 400Ride, To A common South African colloquialism uses this verb somewhat peculiarly, e.g. ‘He is riding wood, forage, etc.’ meaning ‘He is carting wood, forage, etc.,’ from one place to another.
1926 P. Smith Beadle (1929) 115Aalst Vlokman was at that time riding transport between Platkops dorp and Princestown village.
1929 J.G. Van Alphen Jan Venter 44One of the neighbours has put a fence across his road which we have been using for riding mealies to the railway siding for the last fifteen years.
1937 C.R. Prance Tante Rebella’s Saga 125The ox- and the donkey-wagon are almost obsolete, and with them has died out Jock’s hope to make his poorer debtors ride transport to work off their debt.
1962 F.C. Metrowich Scotty Smith 166De Jay must have been a complete fool, because..he actually agreed to go transport riding with him.
1972 Grocott’s Mail 15 Dec. 3Farmers have to ride in feed.
1979 M. Parkes Wheatlands 84He..had the foresight to know that in times of drought, the prickly pear was an asset and very useful, not only to us, as neighbours rode loads of it to feed their animals.
2.
a. transitive. in the phrase to ride (someone) over, to run (someone) over.
1978 Darling 19 July 12An African has accused me of riding him over with the panel van I possessed at the time.
b. transitive. To drive (a motor-vehicle).
1986 Informant, Durban, KwaZulu-NatalYou must see how he rides his car!
c. intransitive. To travel.
1991 G. De Beer Informant, Port Nolloth, Northern CapeRide in (drive in/travel in): Let’s ride in your car today.
To convey or transport (goods or substances).
In the phrase to ride transport,to work as a carrier; kurvey.
in the phrase to ride (someone) over,to run (someone) over.
To drive (a motor-vehicle).
To travel.
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ribbetjie, nounn.Ride Safe, noun phrasen. phr.
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