riser

IPA: rˈaɪzɝ

Someone or something which rises.
A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.
(carpentry) A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
(archery) The main body of a bow.
A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
(Casting (metalworking)) a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
A surname.

Examples of "riser" in Sentences

The edge of a tread that projects past the face of the riser is called the NOSING.
A 1/2 PVC sprinkler riser is just the right size (with maybe a couple turns of tape around it).
And a typical stair riser is not more than 7 high, which means nothing but smallish trade paperbacks under there.
On Thursday night the dome was lowered onto the largest leak, a hole in a pipe called a riser, which is now partly buried in mud.
They are set up in riser fashion they way stadium seating is, so that the first row of people have their feet on the ground, the second row is behind and raised up, and so forth.
I have an S-Coil on my Mathews Legacy, but I also added a Simms Modular Node to the back side of the riser - I don't know if you can do this on the Z7 - might be able to add it to the front since the riser is set in so deep.