riser
[rahy-zer]
- a person who rises, especially from bed: to be an early riser.
- the vertical face of a stair step.
- any of a group of long boards or narrow platforms that can be combined in stepwise fashion: The choir stood on a horseshoe of risers behind the orchestra.
- a vertical pipe, duct, or conduit.
- Metallurgy. a chamber or enlarged opening at the top of a mold for allowing air to escape or adding extra metal.
- Nautical.
- a heavy strake of planking in the vicinity of the garboard strake in a wooden vessel.
- rising(def 10).
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Origin of riser
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Examples from the Web for riser
Contemporary Examples
I'm an early riser, so I often work the morning shift and seldom get woken up by the blast.
Top kill, robots, container domes, riser insertion tubes, and now back to more robots.
Historical Examples
Protruding metal is that which flowed up into gate and riser.
The Boy's Book of New InventionsHarry E. Maule
Dane reached the shaft of the riser—to find the platform gone.
Plague ShipAndre Norton
Perhaps they had by now secured a riser which would bring them up.
Plague ShipAndre Norton
At the roof the 40-inch riser is run into a 48-inch stand pipe.
The New York SubwayAnonymous
He didn't have long to wait, for Tommy is quite as early a riser as Happy Jack.
Happy JackThornton Burgess
riser
- a person who rises, esp from bedan early riser
- the vertical part of a stair or step
- a vertical pipe, esp one within a building
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Word Origin and History for riser
n.
late 14c., "rebel," agent noun from rise (v.). Meaning "one who rises" (from bed, in a certain manner) is mid-15c. Meaning "upright part of a step" is from 1771.
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