transport-riding, verbal noun

Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Probably translation of Afrikaans transport ry the carrying or conveyance of goods.
historical
The conveyance of goods by wagon; kurveying. Also attributive. See also to ride transport (ride sense 1 b).
1871 ‘R.M.R.’ in Cape Monthly Mag. III. Dec. 372In the Western districts, transport-riding has been followed generally by a poor class of men.
1878 A. Aylward Tvl of Today 35The Englishman swaps (chops) and exchanges, engages in transport-riding, obtains cattle he cares little how or where, and may at any moment be the cause of great loss to his neighbours by contaminating their herds with lung sickness and worse diseases.
1882 J. Nixon Among Boers 308The best pursuit for a young would-be farmer to take on reaching the country is ‘transport riding’, or carrying goods. A little capital is required for the purchase of the necessary spans of oxen and waggons, but it pays very good interest on the outlay.
1896 R. Wallace Farming Indust. of Cape Col. 32Of the farmers..the most successful are those who stuck to farming, and did not divide their attention by going in for ‘transport-riding.’
1900 H. Rider Haggard Black Heart p.iTransport-riding — that is, in carrying goods on ox-waggons from Durban or Maritzburg to various points in the interior.
1910 A.B. Lamont Rural Reader 92Transport riding..is a cheap and suitable method of sending goods to places that are at some distance from the railway.
1940 F.B. Young City of Gold 9Money could be had for the asking by any man who possessed a bullock-wagon and cared to go transport-riding, dragging fuel and farm-produce and goods through the sand-belt to Kimberley.
1946 E. Rosenthal General De Wet 16A large percentage of the Orange Free Staters were soon occupied in the most characteristic of old South African industries, known as ‘transport riding’.
1980 S. Afr. Panorama Dec. 44Their other neighbour was Mr Hall’s old transport-riding friend, Sir Percy Fitzpatrick of Jock of the Bushveld fame.
1986 Kallaway & Pearson Johannesburg 4Transport riding continued until railways to all the ports of the Cape, Delagoa Bay, and Durban had been completed.
1988 E. Prov. Herald 27 Feb. 7The Malayan kris (dagger) with which, while transport riding and hunting in the 1830s, he fought off a lion.
The conveyance of goods by wagon; kurveying. Also attributive.
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transport-rider, nounn.transport wagon, noun phrasen. phr.
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