ridstake
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English
[edit]Noun
[edit]ridstake (plural ridstakes)
- (Northern England) a post in a cowshed for tethering cattle
- 1968, Marie Hartley, Joan Ingilby, Life & Tradition in the Yorkshire Dales, page 30:
- Cows are fastened to the iron ring on the ridstake or rudster by a chain, or a cow-band, which is now a rope fastened by a loop and clog (toggle ).