nightrider
noun
one of a band of mounted men, especially in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against Black people and Black sympathizers.
nightriding
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a word derived from
nightrider.
Example Sentences
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There had been nightriding, cattle driving, some boycotting.
From A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George
