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English

Etymology

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. one who rides, often a horse or motorcycle
  2. a provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill
  3. an amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements


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Category:English agent nouns

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French

Verb

  1. wrinkle (to make wrinkles in; to cause to have wrinkles)


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Rider \Rid"er\ (r[imac]d"[~e]r), n.
1. One who, or that which, rides.
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2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to
obtain orders; a commercial traveler. [Eng.]
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3. One who breaks or manages a horse. --Shak.
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4. An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other
document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper;
in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a
bill while in course of passage; something extra or
burdensome that is imposed.
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After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to
propose a rider. --Macaulay.
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This [question] was a rider which Mab found
difficult to answer. --A. S. Hardy.
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5. (Math.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to
another on an examination paper.
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6. [D. rijder.] A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man
on horseback stamped upon it.
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His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. --J.
Fletcher.
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7. (Mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
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8. (Shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a
ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the
lower deck, to strengthen her frame. --Totten.
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9. (Naut.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
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10. A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a
balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the
weight on a steelyard.
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11. A robber. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Drummond.
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Rider's bone (Med.), a bony deposit in the muscles of the
upper and inner part of the thigh, due to the pressure and
irritation caused by the saddle in riding.
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WordNet rider
n 1: a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or
camel)
2: a clause that is appended to a legislative bill
3: a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or
motorcycle)
4: a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or
plane or train etc) who is not operating it [syn: passenger]
Moby Dictionary
addendum , affix , allonge , appendix , bidet , bill , broncobuster ,
buckaroo , caballero , calendar , carriage horse , cart horse ,
cavalier , cavalry horse , cavalryman , chevalier , circus rider ,
clause , coda , codicil , commentary , companion bills amendment ,
cowboy , cowgirl , cowpuncher , draft horse , dragnet clause ,
dray horse , driving horse , enacting clause , enclitic , envoi ,
epilogue , equestrian , equestrienne , escalator clause , fill horse ,
filler , gaucho , gigster , hack , hackney , hold-up bill ,
horse soldier , horseback rider , horsebacker , horseman , horsewoman ,
hunter , infix , interlineation , interpolation , jockey , joker ,
jument , knight , lead , leader , marginalia , motion , mount ,
mounted policeman , note , omnibus bill , pack horse , palfrey ,
plow horse , pole horse , polo pony , post-horse , postboy , postilion ,
postscript , prefix , privileged question , proclitic , proviso ,
puncher , question , remount , riding horse , road horse , roadster ,
roughrider , rouncy , saddle horse , saddler , saving clause , scholia ,
shaft horse , stalking-horse , steeplechaser , suffix , sumpter ,
sumpter horse , supplement , tail , thill horse , thiller , trick rider ,
vaquero , wheeler , wheelhorse , workhorse


RIDER, practice, legislation. A schedule or small piece of paper or parchment added to some part of the record; as, when, on the reading of a bill in the legislature, a new clause is added, this is tacked to the bill on a separate piece of paper, and is called a rider.
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