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Definition of Nightrider
1. Noun. Member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightrider
Literary usage of Nightrider
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"The pirate and the nightrider are nothing to the fox, for romance and danger.
This way of life of his makes it difficult to observe him in a free state at ..."
2. The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism & Violence edited by Sara Bullard (1998)
"... The Terror of the nightrider The scholar Gladys-Marie Fry, who writes about
slave patrols in her book, Night Riders in Black Folk History (University of ..."
3. Reynard the Fox by John Masefield (1920)
"The pirate and the nightrider are nothing to the fox, for romance and danger.
This way of life of his makes it difficult to observe him in a free state at ..."
4. Tales of an Antiquary: Chielfy Illustrative of the Manners, Traditions, and by Richard?]. [Thomson (1828)
"Here, I usually am," answered the Robber ; " in Bucklersbury I 'm Master Richard
Roadnight, and on the road I 'm Captain nightrider; any thing to turn the ..."
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