Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

nightrider

nightrider , noun

member of a secret mounted band in the southern U. S. after the Civil War, which committed acts of intimidation and revenge.

Text from the public-domain GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English, derived from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913). Definitions marked with were added by later GCIDE contributors and are not in the original 1913 edition.

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