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Rider

noun

A traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel).

A clause that is appended to a legislative bill.

A traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle).

A traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it. Synonym: passenger.

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"Rider" Quotes from Famous Books

... start. Then each cavalier essayed to reach the ball first. The sudden urging of the steeds to instant action seemed to confuse them. They did not spring, as they should have done like arrows from bows. One rider wildly kicked with his heels and shook his reins. The horse turned round, as if in contempt, from the ball. Another applied his whip with vehemence, but his horse only backed. A third shouted, having neither whip nor spur, and brought his polo-stick savagely ...

— Six Months at the Cape • R.M. Ballantyne

... the reformers and philanthropists of the time, was not a mere prattling and scribbling sentimentalist, is proved by his glorious idealization of this magnificent horse. He raises the beast into a moral and intellectual sympathy with his human rider, and there is a poetic justice in making him die at last in an attempt to further the escape of a ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 54, April, 1862 • Various

... line-rider for the Quarter Circle KT, "perhaps she will stick him with the dagger, or shoot him with the gun when she arrive! The ladies with love kill quick when the love ...

— The Ramblin' Kid • Earl Wayland Bowman

... animal so attracted Coningsby's attention that it prevented him catching even a glimpse of the rider, who rapidly dismounted and entered the inn. The host shortly after came in and asked Coningsby whether he had any objection to a gentleman, who was driven there by the storm, sharing his room until it subsided. The consequence of the immediate assent of Coningsby was, that the landlord ...

— Coningsby • Benjamin Disraeli

... that stretched away from them in all directions. A lone eagle in the sky or a mariner adrift on a deserted sea could not have seemed more isolated than Lawler and Red King. In this limitless expanse of waste land horse and rider were dwarfed to the proportion of atoms. The yawning, aching, stretching miles of level seemed to have ...

— The Trail Horde • Charles Alden Seltzer

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