rider

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Technical senses.

   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

2. 2
   noun

   a clause that is appended to a legislative bill

3. 3
   noun

   a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it

4. 4
   noun

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

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   A mounted person.

7. 7
   noun

   An addition, supplement.

8. 8
   name

   A surname originating as an occupation. More often spelled Ryder.

Etymology

* As an English surname, from the noun rider. * Also as an English surname, from Old English rēodan (“to clear out”), from Proto-West Germanic *reudan. Compare Reeder. * Also as an English surname, from dialectal rithe (“small stream”). * As an Irish surname, calque from Irish ó marcaigh (“descendant of the (horse)rider”). This is also found directly in Markey. * As a German surname, Americanized from Reiter.