'Rider' definitions:
Definition of 'rider'
From: WordNet
noun
A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
noun
A clause that is appended to a legislative bill
noun
A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)
noun
A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it [syn: passenger, rider]
Definition of 'Rider'
From: GCIDE
- Rider \Rid"er\ (r[imac]d"[~e]r), n.
- 1. One who, or that which, rides. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. [Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. One who breaks or manages a horse. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. 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. [1913 Webster]
- After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. --A. S. Hardy. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Math.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper. [1913 Webster]
- 6. [D. rijder.] A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it. [1913 Webster]
- His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Shipbuilding) 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. --Totten. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Naut.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold. [1913 Webster]
- 10. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 11. A robber. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Drummond. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'rider'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- addendum,
- affix,
- allonge,
- appendix,
- bidet,
- bill,
- broncobuster,
- buckaroo,
- caballero,
- calendar,
- carriage horse,
- cart horse,
- cavalier,
- cavalry horse,
- cavalryman,
- chevalier,
- circus rider,
- clause,
- coda,
- codicil,
- commentary,
- companion bills amendment,
- cowboy,
- cowgirl,
- cowpuncher,
- draft horse,
- dragnet clause,
- dray horse,
- driving horse,
- enacting clause,
- enclitic,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- equestrian,
- equestrienne,
- escalator clause,
- fill horse,
- filler,
- gaucho,
- gigster,
- hack,
- hackney,
- hold-up bill,
- horse soldier,
- horseback rider,
- horsebacker,
- horseman,
- horsewoman,
- hunter,
- infix,
- interlineation,
- interpolation,
- jockey,
- joker,
- jument,
- knight,
- lead,
- leader,
- marginalia,
- motion,
- mount,
- mounted policeman,
- note,
- omnibus bill,
- pack horse,
- palfrey,
- plow horse,
- pole horse,
- polo pony,
- post-horse,
- postboy,
- postilion,
- postscript,
- prefix,
- privileged question,
- proclitic,
- proviso,
- puncher,
- question,
- remount,
- riding horse,
- road horse,
- roadster,
- roughrider,
- rouncy,
- saddle horse,
- saddler,
- saving clause,
- scholia,
- shaft horse,
- stalking-horse,
- steeplechaser,
- suffix,
- sumpter,
- sumpter horse,
- supplement,
- tail,
- thill horse,
- thiller,
- trick rider,
- vaquero,
- wheeler,
- wheelhorse,
- workhorse