wrack-rider

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• Wrack

  ·noun Wreck; ruin; destruction. II. Wrack ·noun Coarse seaweed of any kind. III. Wrack ·noun A thi...

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• wrack

  The English name for the fucus; the sea-weed used for the manufacture of kelp, and in some places ar...

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• Rider

  ·noun One who, or that which, rides. II. Rider ·noun A <<Robber>>. III. Rider ·noun One who breaks...

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• rider

  A person who receives part of the salary of a place or appointment from the ostensible occupier, by ...

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• Sea wrack

  ·- ·see <<Wrack>>. ...

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• rank rider

  A highwayman. ...

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• boundary-rider

  n. a man who rides round thefences of a station to see that they are in order. 1890. E. W. Hornung...

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• scrub-rider

  n. a man who rides through the scrub in search of Scrub-cattle (q.v.). 1881. A. C. Giant, `Bush Li...

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• stock-rider

  n. a man employed to look aftercattle, properly on an unfenced station. 1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush ...

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• keelson-rider

  See false kelson. ...

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• rack-rider

  The name of the samlet in northern fisheries, so called because it generally appears in bad weather....

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• sea-wrack grass

  ♦ Zostera marina; used in Sweden and Holland for manuring land. At Yarmouth it is thrown on shore in...

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• Haggard, Henry Rider

  (b. 1856) Novelist, etc. The Witch's Head (1885), King Solomon's Mines (1886), She (1887), Jess (18...

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• top-rider futtocks

  These timbers stand nearly the same as breadth-riders, and very much strengthen the top-side. ...

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