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Raiser

noun

A bridge partner who increases the partner's bid.

Someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil. Synonyms: agriculturalist, agriculturist, cultivator, grower.

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"Raiser" Quotes from Famous Books

... the cattle raiser wondering at the suddenness of my exit, and entered the small room, where I found Mr. ...

— The Gold Hunter's Adventures - Or, Life in Australia • William H. Thomes

... pencil and paper he could easily figure profits in the business. If this dreamer would attempt to keep cows for the production of casein and throw away his butter fat, we would have an analogous case to the broiler raiser who does not keep his pullets ...

— The Dollar Hen • Milo M. Hastings

... feat. For the benefit of those anxious to obtain this power, I will give the doctor's recipe:—"Publish it abroad that you can raise the Devil, and the country will believe you, and will credit you with many miracles. All that you have to do afterwards is to be silent, and you will then be as good a raiser of Devils as I am, and ...

— Welsh Folk-Lore - a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales • Elias Owen

... the care of the moths, eggs, worms, and cocoons—this being the succession of changes. That is, the moth lays eggs which are collected and kept cool till the proper season for incubation. They are then kept warm during the time occupied in hatching, sometimes about the person of the raiser. After a time these eggs hatch out worms, tiny things hardly larger than the head of a pin. After the worms are hatched they require constant care and feeding with chopped mulberry leaves till they reach maturity. They are then about three inches in length, ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

... comedy, tragedy, prose and verse, the light curtain-raiser, the short sharp drama, the bourgeois-realistic and the lyrical-romantic—finally deciding that he would no longer "prostitute his talent" to win popularity, but would impose on the public his own theory of art in the form of five acts of blank verse. Yes, he had offered them ...

— Tales Of Men And Ghosts • Edith Wharton

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