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/rˈaɪzər/ Listen

noun

Riser n.

One who rises; as, an early riser.

(Arch.)

(a)

The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence:

(b)

Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like.

(Mining) A shaft excavated from below upward.

(Founding) A feed head. See under Feed, n.

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"Riser" Quotes from Famous Books

... that miserable kennel without complaining of his lodgings, or feeling inconvenience from their deficiencies. It is when "the mind is free the body's delicate." Morning, however, found the Master an early riser, in hopes that the fresh air of the dawn might afford the refreshment which night had refused him. He took his way towards the solitary burial-ground, which lay about half a mile from ...

— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott

... coffee, massa," said he to Mr Meldrum, who was an early riser too and not far behind the darkey; "Um berry good for de ...

— The Wreck of the Nancy Bell - Cast Away on Kerguelen Land • J. C. Hutcheson

... unfolded. The little dinner at which Sylvia made her appearance and at which Walter Hine was carefully primed with drink; the little round game of cards which Garratt Skinner was so reluctant to allow in his house on a Sunday evening, and from which, being an early riser, he retired to bed, leaving Hine in the hands of Captain Barstow and Archie Parminter; the quiet secluded house in the country; the new gardener who appeared for one day and shot with so surprising an accuracy, when ...

— Running Water • A. E. W. Mason

... an early riser, but he was barely into his trousers when a bell boy tapped at his door. The major was small and plump, with a face like a harvest moon, if you can imagine a harvest moon wearing a bristling moustache and goatee. Horsemen ...

— Old Man Curry - Race Track Stories • Charles E. (Charles Emmett) Van Loan

... on the sacrifices in Leviticus, "that as not the refuse of the animals was to be offered up, so the best part of our time should be especially given to communion with the Lord." I had been, on the whole, rather an early riser during former years. But since the nerves of my head had been so weak, I thought that, as the day was long enough for my strength, it would be best for me not to rise early, in order that thus the nerves of my head might have the longer quiet. On this account I rose only between ...

— The Life of Trust: Being a Narrative of the Lord's Dealings With George Mueller • George Mueller

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