Meaning of Rider | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mounted person.
   archaic, historical
2. A knight, or other mounted warrior.
   archaic, historical
3. A surname originating as an occupation. More often spelled Ryder.
4. An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
5. Someone who rides a horse or (later) a bicycle, motorcycle etc.
6. A mounted robber; a bandit, especially in the Scottish borders.
   archaic, historical
7. Someone who breaks in or manages a horse; a riding master.
   obsolete
8. An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller or travelling salesman.
   archaic, historical
9. Someone riding in a vehicle; a passenger on public transport.
   US
10. A boarder, a person who rides a board in boardsports.
11. A skateboarder
12. A snowboarder
13. An addition, supplement.
14. A supplementary clause added to a document after drafting, especially to a bill under the consideration of a legislature.
15. An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.
16. An additional matter or question arising in corollary; a qualification.
17. A supplementary question, now especially in mathematics.
18. An add-on to an insurance policy.
19. Technical senses.
20. 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.
21. Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
    archaic
22. The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
    in-plural
23. A small, sliding piece of thin metal on a balance, used to determine small weights.
24. The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.
25. 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.

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Examples

“His mouldy money! half a dozen riders.”

“The eyes of Holstein de Dorenstorff stared, wildly, upon a figure, which at this instant appeared, mounted on a beautiful beast,[…]; its rider was enveloped in a kind of large, concealing coat, which well answered the intent of its purport: […]”

“After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. […] When customers buy a Harley, they’re instantly a member of a family of zealous fans — guys with tattoos and unruly hair as well as lawyers and doctors. (The average household income of today’s rider is about $87,000.)”

“BMX rider Saya Sakakibara is all too aware of the risks of her chosen profession.”

“In Ewsdale eight and forty notorious riders are hung on growing trees, the most famous of which was John Armstrong”

“They are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd.”

“I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency.”

“On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to.”

“In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.””

“I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this.”

“But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'.”

“This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer.”

“During the four weeks of research, a considerable part of the ships structure was discovered underneath the ballast stones: keel, floor timbers, strakes, keelson together with mast step and its sisters and rider”

“It simply blocks the cell to entry by any piece, though riders may pass over it (otherwise checkmates become difficult, since the coin could be used to block any distant check by a rider). […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.”

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