a traveler who actively rides an animal (as a horse or camel)
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a clause that is appended to a legislative bill
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a traveler who actively rides a vehicle (as a bicycle or motorcycle)
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a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
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Rider \Rid"er\ (r[imac]d"[~e]r), n. 1. One who, or that which, rides.
2. Formerly, an agent who went out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveler. [Eng.]
3. One who breaks or manages a horse. --Shak.
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.
After the third reading, a foolish man stood up to propose a rider. --Macaulay.
This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. --A. S. Hardy.
5. (Math.) A problem of more than usual difficulty added to another on an examination paper.
6. [D. rijder.] A Dutch gold coin having the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.
His moldy money ! half a dozen riders. --J. Fletcher.
7. (Mining) Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.
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.
9. (Naut.) The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.
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.
11. A robber. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Drummond.
{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.
And it is the rider's job to search the herd for cows that will best show the horse's stuff.
Shifting gears on a 10-speed bike, for instance, usually requires the rider to take one hand off the handlebars, reach down and move a lever.
It's probably too late for anyone to change the family car for the weekend trip, but the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety on Tuesday released its first ranking of cars according to the likelihood of a rider dying in one of them.
The spokesman said Reagan is "an excellent rider and he held on quite a while."
The rider's horse was the first non-human.
Teddy Kennedy, no fan of Mr. Murdoch's Boston Herald and New York Post, had moved, through a rider to the budget bill, to block any effort by the FCC to let Mr. Murdoch operate those two newspapers and broadcasting stations in the same cities.
As the glow gets brighter, the rider applies the foot brake, dismounts and lifts the contraption from the rails.
A coalition of bus operators has offered to make the express runs immediately, as an upgrade from the crowded existing lines, if the city would grant a $60-a-month subsidy, with the rider and/or his employer covering $40.
Rowe, a former world champion saddle bronc rider, is looking for a commercial formula for raising bucking bulls on a farm near Dickson.
This makes the rider a spectator of sorts, albeit one with the best seat in the house.
But the camel's constant rocking isn't so kind to the rider's back.
Twenty-nine convicts escaped from a Carson City, Nev., prison and six of them fled south and killed a mail rider.
The government contends that the new law is not piracy because no profit is allowed, as if the pope were to attach a rider to the Seventh Commandment making its violation depend on personal gain and not the theft itself.
Except for a shortage of portable toilets and a rider who was slightly injured when thrown from a horse, there were no problems, organizers said.
Under Sumitomo's proposal, its $200 million investment would be split evenly between the purchase of preferred stock and the granting of a secured loan, both of which are convertible to common stock, a rider that could shore up LTV's stock value.
He has in recent weeks looked like the rider of a pair of horses veering in opposite directions.
"I guess if I were a young rider, I'd try to get my license before January," said state Rep. Everett A. Kelly, who helped draft the law.
The group is the country's biggest insurer of motor cyclists but last year announced that it would refuse to insure some categories of rider. Despite the loss, the group still transferred Pounds 21m from its general insurance account to its life fund.
A gunman ambushed and killed a bicycle rider, seriously injured a driver and wounded two police officers before he was shot in a sidewalk gunbattle outside a crowded shopping mall, police said.
One elephant rider was Richard Dunne, a 37-year-old lawyer from Baltimore, who said he bought the ride at a charity auction.
Morning television viewers were met with the "Flintstones," a food program and a film about stunt rider Evel Knievel instead of the usual two-hour "Breakfast Time" news and current affairs show.
An hour later, on a D train (as P.J. O'Rourke once noted, New York subway lines are named after important letters and numerals), an alert thief has noticed a rider fast asleep with a duffle bag by his feet.
"Bush," he says, "got in on the rider's side." Jesse Jackson often talks about crossing lines of race, sex and religion to find common ground among disparate groups.
When the rider straddles the bike standing there should be one or two inches of space between the groin and the bike frame.
In some cases, water scooters have been known to sink or to fail far from shore, leaving a rider stranded.
But Murray would greatly increase Tomkins's presence in non-British markets, and Murray makes rider mowers, which Hayters doesn't.
Calamity Jane, who dressed in men's clothes and boasted of her exploits as a pony-express rider and army scout, was one of the first women to arrive after gold was found in the late 1800s.
The lawsuit says a rider attached to a budget bill in 1984 by Alaska's two senators unconstitutionally denied union members the protection of the doctrine of partial termination.
A witness saw the bicyclist but could not describe the sex, race or age because the rider was wearing a parka, said Capt.
But for his own people, he hasn't done much," said Bela, 53, a subway rider who declined to give her last name.