Word: rider Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (“rider, knight”). Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter. By surface analysis, ride + -er. Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ̯.dəː/, [ˈɹʷaɪ̯dəː], /ˈɹɑɪ̯.dəː/, [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.dəː] ~ [ˈɹʷɑ̟ɪ̯.dɐ̝ː], /ˈɹɒɪ̯.dəː/ 1. A mounted person. Labels: archaic, historical 2. A mounted person. Example: His mouldy money! half a dozen riders. 3. A mounted person. Example: The eyes of Holstein de Dorenstorff stared, wildly, upon a figure, which at this instant appeared, mounted on a beautiful beast,[…]; its rider was enveloped in a kind of large, concealing coat, which well answered the intent of its purport: […] Example: After riding high for two decades, the company that makes the hulky bikes that devoted riders affectionately call Hogs is sputtering. […] When customers buy a Harley, they’re instantly a member of a family of zealous fans  guys with tattoos and unruly hair as well as lawyers and doctors. (The average household income of today’s rider is about $87,000.) 4. A mounted person. Labels: Philippines 5. A mounted person. Labels: archaic, historical Example: In Ewsdale eight and forty notorious riders are hung on growing trees, the most famous of which was John Armstrong 6. A mounted person. Labels: obsolete Example: They are taught their mannage, and to that end Riders deerely hir'd. 7. A mounted person. Labels: archaic, historical Example: I set out with a Paisley manufacturer and a London rider, the latter of whom I envied for his smartness and self-complacency. 8. A mounted person. Labels: US Example: On the London Underground, Piccadilly Circus station is nearly vacant on a weekday morning, while the Delhi Metro is ferrying fewer than half of the riders it used to. 9. A mounted person. Example: In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.” 10. A mounted person. 11. An addition, supplement. 12. An addition, supplement. Example: I had sixteen nudity riders to sign and having Jean, our intimacy coordinator, Jean Franzblau, was absolutely pivotal to being able to do this. 13. An addition, supplement. Example: But they would hush momentarily for the farce, specially if billed with the grand rider: 'licensed by the Lord Chamberlain expressly for this theatre'. 14. An addition, supplement. Example: This [question] was a rider which Mab found difficult to answer. 15. An addition, supplement. 16. Technical senses. Example: During the four weeks of research, a considerable part of the ships structure was discovered underneath the ballast stones: keel, floor timbers, strakes, keelson together with mast step and its sisters and rider 17. Technical senses. Labels: archaic 18. Technical senses. Labels: in-plural 19. Technical senses. 20. Technical senses. 21. Technical senses. Example: It simply blocks the cell to entry by any piece, though riders may pass over it (otherwise checkmates become difficult, since the coin could be used to block any distant check by a rider). […] Another type of rider is the Mao which is the knight in Chinese chess. It makes its move in two steps, a noncapturing wazir move followed by a fers move, so the cell moved through must be vacant. The Moa (W.Speckman) is a knight that moves as fers followed by wazir.