nightrider

night·rid·er  (ntrdr)

n.

One of a secret band of mounted, usually masked white men who engaged in nocturnal terrorism for revenge or intimidation in the southern United States especially during Reconstruction.

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nightrider [ˈnaɪtˌraɪdə]

n

(Historical Terms) a member of a band of mounted and usually masked Whites in the southern US who carried out acts of revenge and intimidation at night after the Civil War

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nightrider - member of a secret mounted band in United States South after the American Civil War; committed acts of intimidation and revenge night rider aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks