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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Rider

Rider (rider)
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Rid"er
  1. One who, or that which, rides.
  2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
    [Eng.]
  3. One who breaks or manages a horse.
    Shak.
  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.

    After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. Macaulay.

    This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. A. S. Hardy.

  5. A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
  6. A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

    His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. J. Fletcher.

  7. Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
  8. 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.
  9. The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
  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.
  11. A robber.
    [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drummond.

    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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