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night•rid•er



Pronunciation: (nīt'rī"dur), [key]
n.
one of a band of mounted men, esp. in the southern U.S. during Reconstruction, who committed nocturnal acts of violence and intimidation against blacks and black sympathizers.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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