Meanings
plural trithings
- historicala riding (one of three ancient divisions of a county in England)
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Where a county is divided into three of these intermediate jurisdictions, they are called trithings, which were antiently governed by a trithing-reeve. These trithings still subsist in the large county of York, where by an easy corruption they are denominated ridings; the north, the east, and the west-riding.
1771, William, Sir Blackstone, “Of the Countries Subject to the Laws of England”, in Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume 1, page 116
Origin
- Old Norseþriðjungr“third part”
- Old English*þriðing
- Middle Englishtrithing
- Englishtrithing
From Middle English trithing, tridinge, from Old English *þriðing, from Old Norse þriðjungr (“third part”).
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