Word Finder - rider

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One who rides, often on a horse or a motorcycle.

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A provision annexed to a bill under the consideration of a legislature, having little connection with the subject matter of the bill.

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(by extension) Something extra or burdensome that is imposed.

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An amendment or addition to an entertainer's performance contract, often covering a performer's equipment or food, drinks, and general comfort requirements.

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An additional benefit attached to an insurance contract.

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A small, sliding piece of aluminium on a chemical balance, used to determine small weights.

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An agent who goes out with samples of goods to obtain orders; a commercial traveller.

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One who breaks in or manages a horse.

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The first Lenormand card, also known as either the horseman or the cavalier.

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A problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper.

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An old Dutch gold coin with the figure of a man on horseback stamped upon it.

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Rock material in a vein of ore, dividing it.

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An interior rib occasionally fixed in a ship's hold, reaching from the keelson to the beams of the lower deck, to strengthen the frame.

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The second tier of casks in a vessel's hold.

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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.

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A robber.

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A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.

Too quickly, her rider barreled back and halted beside her.

Another rider appeared on a black horse.

Dean picked up the pace and closed the gap on the yellow­shirted rider, low on his bike to minimize the wind resistance as he raced downward at a dangerous speed.

Dean strained for a glimpse of the yellow jacket he had pur­sued so vigorously but either he had missed the rider or the biker had shed the jacket to the warmth of the valley.

He reined in his horse with the care of a skillful rider and, slightly bending over, disengaged his saber which had caught in his cloak.

The other rider doffed her helmet, spilling waves of blond hair.

Dean only had a brief glance at the rider, not enough to even tell if the helmeted figure was a man or a woman, much less recognize the person.

He could spot the rider now and again with occasional glances and by counting off the seconds between points they both passed, knew he was gaining, if ever so slowly.

If the rider were able to draft them, Dean would have trouble matching their pace, so he quickened his.

Her gaze rose to the rider and her pulse bolted as she met that bittersweet chocolate gaze.

According to the Jewish legend Heliodorus was attacked when he entered the Temple by a horse with a terrible rider and by two young men.

The rider sitting in the position described, square to the front, with his shoulders well back, will be riding with fairly long reins, one of the secrets of good hands.

When the horse is in motion the hands should not be held rigid, as the horse's mouth would thereby become dead, and the horse would lean unpleasantly on the hand; but the rider should give and take, without, however, entirely relaxing the hold.

A puller will compel the rider to shorten his leathers one or perhaps two holes - a course that may also be rendered necessary in a hilly country, for, in going down hill, the stirrups, if kept at the ordinary length, will generally feel a great deal too long.

In jumping an ordinary hedge or ditch at moderate speed, there is of course a moment of time during which the horse is on his hind legs, and in theory the rider should then lean forward, but, in practice, this position is so momentary, and the lash out of the hind legs in the spring is so powerful, that it is best not to lean forward at all, because of the difficulty, if not impossibility, of getting back in time for the reverse movement, when the rider should be preparing to render the horse some assistance with the bridle as his feet touch the ground.

A jockey must therefore, more than any other civilian rider, have a hand for all sorts of horses, and in the case of two and three year olds a very good hand it must be.

The first point was speedily decided in the affirmative, and, as to the second, it was ultimately decided that the king should be released from his path and the charter returned to him; but a rider was added suggesting that he should, at the same time, promulgate a Recess providing for his own and his people's welfare.

More than likely the unidentified rider was only another drifter.

A horse and rider could cover more distance in a day that the mules could pulling the heavy freight wagons.

She was tending the mules when she saw a rider on top of a sand dune.

The rider on the black horse turned back.

He slid in behind another biker and followed the crouched figure evenly, absentmindedly match­ing the rider stride for stride for several miles as he pondered his course of action.

With a squeal of brakes Dean narrowly missed the rider in front, who shouted a profanity and spun sideways to a stop in the road­side gravel, miraculously maintaining balance.

It seemed every other rider had passed him on the climb until he looked down the mountain and saw hundreds of dots of color still struggling up the incline behind him.

He rolled into a series of curves but he couldn't take his tear-streaked eyes from the road long enough to see if he were gaining on the other rider.

The clus­ter of 12 riders who passed him further up the mountain was now about to pass the other rider.

He knew the yellow shirted rider was long gone, but strangely, it didn't seem to matter anymore.

In fact, a young single girl might be exactly what they needed to inject more interest in the tour – and Felipa was an excellent rider.

The great advantage of the Confederate - an advantage which he had in a less degree as against the hardier and country-bred Federal of the west - was that he was a hunter and rider born and bred, an excellent shot, and still not infrequently settled his quarrels by the duel.

The mule path descends on the south side of the pass by an extraordinary series of zigzags, made accessible for mules (though no rider is now allowed to descend on mule-back) by a band of Tirolese workmen in 1740-1741.

The dashing rider, Colonel Banastre Tarleton, cut to pieces (April 14, 1780) a detachment of Lincoln's cavalry, and followed it up by practically destroying Buford's Virginia regiment near the North Carolina border.

After securing an animal of the right height, weight and disposition, with a saddle of a length of tree and a breadth of seat that fits the rider and that is lined to fit the back of the horse, with a bridle bitted to his mouth, the first step is to mount.

Hayward and Tyler's "Rider" engine maybe mentioned as another small hot-air motor which follows nearly the Stirling cycle of operations.

The horse stumbled, and his rider was thrown heavily to the ground.

But it was enough to catch the rider's number before the jacket cov­ered it.

But if the epithet is intended to designate an animal that takes an interest in its rider so far as a beast can, that in some way understands his intentions, or shares them in a subordinate fashion, that obeys from a sort of submissive or halffellow-feeling' with his master, like the horse or elephant, then I say that the camel is by no means docile - very much the contrary.

He takes no heed of his rider, pays no attention whether he be on his back or not, walks straight on when once set agoing, merely because he is too stupid to turn aside, and then should some tempting thorn or green branch allure him out of the path, continues to walk on in the new direction simply because he is too dull to turn back into the right road.

A good dalul or riding camel will carry his rider zoo m.

Nolde gives an instance from his own experience of a camel rider covering 62 m.

The tubs are usually formed into sets of from 2 to 12, the front one being coupled up by a short length of chain to a clamping hook formed of two jaws moulded to the curve of the rope which are attached by the " run rider," as the driver accompanying the train is called.

He was the best rider in the army and the best swimmer in the fleet.

The rider's body must be always clOse to the saddle in leaping, for if he were jerked up, the weight of say only a 10stone man coming down on the horse a couple of seconds after he has negotiated a large fence is sufficient to throw the animal down.

He is an expert rider; horse-racing is his national amusement, and the Baluch breed of horses is celebrated throughout northern India.

Therefore by graduating the top of the beam and shifting a rider grain weight till the beam is horizontal, it is easy to ascertain the small difference of weight in the scale-pans which caused the de - flection to the T foth or i.

This is allowed for by means of a rider weight, which is arranged so as automatically to add its weight to that of the sugar in the bag while of a scale-beam.

But at the same instant that the cut - off takes place the rider weight is lifted off the end of the balance by a From the Notice issued by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade, by permission of the Controller of H.M.

And, if the rider weight has been correctly adjusted, the bag of sugar will be shown to weigh exactly 4 lb by the beam vibra - ting in equipoise.

He made windmills, water-clocks, kites and dials, and he is said to have invented a four-wheeled carriage which was to be moved by the rider.

When there is a man on one of them, if the beast is tired and urged to go on, he turns his head round, and discharges his saliva, which has an un pleasant odour, into the rider's face.

The rider through the fire wins Brunhild but this may belong to another cycle of ideas.