ˈrīdə(r) noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English rīdere, from rīdan to ride + -ere -er
1. : one that rides horseback: as
a. archaic : a mounted highwayman, freebooter, or moss-trooper
b. : cowboy 3a
c. : a circus performer who rides horses
d. : a mounted agent employed on a plantation — compare ditch rider
e. : jockey
2. : one that rides a vehicle
train rider
motorcycle rider
3.
a.
[translation of Dutch rijder ]
: a Dutch ryder
b. : a Scotch gold coin issued by James III and his successor
4.
a. : an addition or amendment to a manuscript, printer's proof, or other document often attached on a separate piece of paper : allonge , annex , codicil
b. : something added as an extra to a seemingly completed statement or act
c. Britain : a recommendation by a jury appended to its verdict
d. : a clause appended to a legislative bill to secure an object usually entirely distinct from that of the bill itself
wantonly violates the Constitution in attaching legislative riders to appropriation bills — New Republic
5. : something used to overlie or cover another (as an upper tier of casks, a turn of a rope, or a tree placed on a wall)
6.
a. : a rail laid slanting in the forks of the cross stakes at the corner of a worm fence as a reinforcement
b. : a small movable adjusting weight on the beam of a balance resembling the weight on a steelyard
c. : a pipe above and parallel to a main pipe into which part of the flow is diverted over a considerable distance and from which the flow is redirected into the main
7. archaic : traveling salesman
8.
a. : the top raker of a set of raking shores
b. : the strap of a hinge
9. : endorsement 2 b
10.
a. : a thin parallel coal seam or mineral vein overlying a larger seam or vein
b. : the country rock between them
c. : a body of barren or country rock occurring as a horse within a vein
11. : a vibrating steel roller that rests on and rotates in contact with a form roller to augment the distribution of printing ink
12. : a man who rides a freight car being switched over the hump of a railroad classification yard in order to set the brakes and stop the car at the proper point
13. : an extra rib timber set in between the frames of a wooden ship
14. : a logger who drives a horse or mule to haul rigging equipment back to the woods after each log has been skidded to the yard or landing