subs. phr. (old).—1. A highwayman; and (2) a jockey. See RIDE, verb. Whence RANK-RIDING = rough-riding.—B. E. (c. 1696); GROSE (1785).
1612. DRAYTON, Poly-Olbion, iii. 28.
| And on his match as much the western horseman lays, | |
| As the RANK RIDING Scots upon their galloways. |
