verb, -rode, -rid⋅den, -rid⋅ing, noun | 1. | to outdo or outstrip in riding. |
| 2. | (of a ship) to come safely through (a storm) by lying to. |
| 3. | to act as an outrider. |
| 4. | Prosody. an unaccented syllable or syllables added to a metrical foot, esp. in sprung rhythm. |