riser
/ˈɹaɪ.zə(ɹ)/ noun C1- Someone or something which rises.
- A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something. · The choir stood on risers for the performance.
- A vertical part of a step on a staircase.
- The main body of a bow.
- 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).
- A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.
- A Manx cat with a showable short tail.
- A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.
Plural risers
From the library
He was a late riser, as a rule, and as the clock on the mantelpiece showed me that it was only a quarter-past seven, I blinked up at him in some surprise, and perhaps just a little resentment, for I was myself regular in my habits.
“The Count of Monte Cristo is always an early riser; and I can answer for his having been up these two hours.”
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