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rider - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'rider' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Rider [ n.]
- One who, or that which, rides.
- Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler.
- One who breaks or manages a horse.
- An addition or amendment to a manuscript or other document, which is attached on a separate piece of paper; in legislative practice, an additional clause annexed to a bill while in course of passage; something extra or burdensome that is imposed.
- A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
- A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
- Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
- An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen her frame.
- The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
- A small forked weight which straddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.
- A robber.