rider
IPA: rˈaɪdɝ
noun
- A mounted person.
- (now archaic or historical) A knight, or other mounted warrior.
- An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
- (generally) Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
- (now historical or archaic) A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
- (obsolete) Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.
- (now rare, historical) An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.
- (now chiefly US) Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
- An addition, supplement.
- (politics) A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
- An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
- An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
- A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
- Technical senses.
- (shipbuilding) An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.
- (mining, now rare) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
- (nautical, in the plural) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
- A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
- (cartomancy) The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
- (chess) A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.
- A surname originating as an occupation. More often spelled Ryder.
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Examples of "rider" in Sentences
- He was the regular rider of Triplicate.
- The rider is tall and can ride a horse well.
- The fate of the motorcycle rider is unclear.
- The recumbent bicycle offers a reclining rider position.
- He is the traitor that led to the destruction of the Riders.
- The rider is jarred and the horse absorbs a lot of concussion.
- A moped is not the prime mover for the vehicle but the rider is.
- Therefore, the pounds move for each rider is more like 6700 pounds.
- Do you mean by the rider leaning to the right with respect to the bike
- The reins are the rider's link to the horse, and are seen on every bridle.
- To shorten the horse's stride, the rider sits taller and lengthens the spine.
- The double accident benefit, the disability benefit and the term rider are some of them.
- A honey bee has a mass of about 0.2 grams, so our rider is about 400,000 times as heavy.
- The contemporary trial bikes come without seats as most of the time the rider is out of the saddle.
- I think what you describe as the rider was important because we wanted to move beyond the sceptics v believers argument.
- There are photos of last year's HoodBombing Ride on the bikeportland. org website: a single rider is dressed in full motorcycle leather.
- Accordingly when the protesters knock one of the basijis off their bikes they are being particularly brutal, believing that the rider is arab.
- It forces me to take better care of myself because unlike what my husband used to think before he started to ride, the rider is an athelete too.
- There are some fifty of these marks, some of them (like a spiral of hair in the breast which denotes that the rider is a cuckold) so ill-omened that the animal can be bought for almost nothing.
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