Definition of Rough rider

1. Noun. A member of the volunteer cavalry regiment led by Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War (1898).

Generic synonyms: Cavalryman, Trooper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough Rider

Rothschild
Rothschilds
Rothstein
Rotor's syndrome
Rotterdam
Rottweiler
Rottweilers
Rotuman
Rotumans
Rouen
Rouget's bulb
Rouget's muscle
Rouget's rail
Rouget-Neumann sheath
Rouget cell
Rough Rider
Roughton-Scholander apparatus
Roughton-Scholander syringe
Rougnon-Heberden disease
Roumania
Roumanian
Roumanians
Round Table
Roundhead
Roundheads
Rounds
Rous
Rous sarcoma
Rous sarcoma virus

Literary usage of Rough rider

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Official Catalogue: Annual Horse Show by National Horse Show Association of America (1899)
"It will pay you to see the "rough rider." A STEEL SHOE Drop-forged, with Expanding Rubber Tread, maintaining until worn out a constant rubber contact with ..."

2. Five Years of a Hunter's Life in the Far Interior of South Africa: With by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (1850)
"... Method of carrying them — Anecdotes of the Ostrich — Affray with a Porcupine — He proves a rough Rider for my Horse — Narrow Escape from the Thrust of a ..."

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