rider : Idioms & Phrases

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dispatch rider

  • noun a messenger who carries military dispatches (usually on a motorcycle)
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freedom rider

  • noun one of an interracial group of civil rights activists who rode buses through parts of the South in order to protest racial segregation
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horseback rider

  • noun a man skilled in equitation
    horseman; equestrian.
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night rider

  • noun member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge
    nightrider.
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rider haggard

  • noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
    Rider Haggard; Haggard.
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rider plate

  • noun a horizontal beam (or plate) connected to the top of a ship's vertical keel or to the keelson
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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.
Webster 1913

rodeo rider

  • noun a performer who gives exhibitions of riding and roping and bulldogging
    cowboy.
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rough rider

  • noun a member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898)
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sir henry rider haggard

  • noun British writer noted for romantic adventure novels (1856-1925)
    Rider Haggard; Haggard.
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