to ride

1) The use of the word ride, both as a verb and a noun, in the sense of being conveyed in a carriage, has been regarded as an Americanism. Nevertheless, it was formerly so used in England, as appears from the following example:

He made him to ride in the chariot.--Gen. xlii. 43

English writers of the present day, however, consider it as correct to use it only of conveyance on horseback, or some other motive power; but of conveyance in a carriage, they use the verb to drive, as in the following extract from Cowper:

Sometimes I get into a neighbor's chaise, but generally ride [i. e. on horseback].

2) To carry. In the city of New York this word is used by carmen as well as merchants, when speaking of carting or carrying merchandise on a cart. Thus, 'to ride a box or bale of goods,' is to carry it. I heard a witness in a court-room testify that he had "rode some hogs from the wharf to the store," by which he meant that he carried a load of dead hogs on his cart.