The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Ride \Ride\, v. t.
   1. To sit on, so as to be carried; as, to ride a horse; to
      ride a bicycle.
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            [They] rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the
            air
            In whirlwind.                         --Milton.
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   2. To manage insolently at will; to domineer over.
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            The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by
            bakers, cobblers, and brewers.        --Swift.
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   3. To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding.
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            Tue only men that safe can ride
            Mine errands on the Scottish side.    --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   4. (Surg.) To overlap (each other); -- said of bones or
      fractured fragments.
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   To ride a hobby, to have some favorite occupation or
      subject of talk.

   To ride and tie, to take turn with another in labor and
      rest; -- from the expedient adopted by two persons with
      one horse, one of whom rides the animal a certain
      distance, and then ties him for the use of the other, who
      is coming up on foot. --Fielding.

   To ride down.
      (a) To ride over; to trample down in riding; to overthrow
          by riding against; as, to ride down an enemy.
      (b) (Naut.) To bear down, as on a halyard when hoisting a
          sail.

   To ride out (Naut.), to keep safe afloat during (a storm)
      while riding at anchor or when hove to on the open sea;
      as, to ride out the gale.
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