ride and tie

== English == === Etymology === 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 approaching on foot. === Verb === ride and tie (third-person singular simple present rides and ties, present participle riding and tying, simple past rode and tied, past participle ridden and tied) To take turns with another in labour and rest. 1941, Mary Grayson, interviewed in A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Washington: Library of Congress, Volume 13, Oklahoma Narratives, p. 122,[5] After three or four days of walking we came across some more Negroes who had a horse, and mammy paid them to let us children ride and tie with their children for a day or two. To ride an animal and travel on foot alternately.