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nightrider
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun nightrider has 1 sense
- nightrider(n = noun.person) night rider - member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge; Array is a kind of aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker
CIDE DICTIONARY
nightrider, n.
member of a secret mounted band in the southern U. S. after the Civil War, which committed acts of intimidation and revenge. [WordNet 1.5]
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