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Riser

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Someone or something which rises.
  2. 2
    structural member consisting of the vertical part of a stair or step wordnet
  3. 3
    A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

    "The choir stood on risers for the performance."

  4. 4
    a vertical pipe in a building wordnet
  5. 5
    A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
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  1. 6
    a person who rises (especially from bed) wordnet
  2. 7
    The main body of a bow.
  3. 8
    A vertical utility conduit, pipe or path between floors of a building for placement of cables (e.g. telephone, networking), or to convey fluids (e.g. gas, water).
  4. 9
    A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
  5. 10
    A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
  6. 11
    A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
  7. 12
    A reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent the formation of cavities in the casting as the metal shrinks on cooling.
  8. 13
    A male's erection. colloquial, countable

Etymology

From Middle English ryser, risere, equivalent to rise + -er.

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