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Nightrider

noun
1.
Member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge.  Synonym: night rider.






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"Nightrider" Quotes from Famous Books



... horse shied violently and stood still. George persuaded him back into the track and rode on, guessing that already he had become a genuine phantom for the self-absorbed group awakened out of its ecstasy by the mysterious vision of a nightrider. ...
— The Roll-Call • Arnold Bennett

... was a house divided agin itself. Miss Lucy, she is awful favourable to all this nightrider business. She spunks up and her eyes sparkles whenever she thinks about that there ...
— Danny's Own Story • Don Marquis



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