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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Raiser \Rais"er\ (r[=a]z"[~e]r), noun One who, or that which, raises (in various senses of the verb).
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
raiser
noun
1: a bridge partner who increases the partner's bid
2: someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil [syn: {agriculturist}, {cultivator}, {grower}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
93 Moby Thesaurus words for "raiser": Bauer, agriculturalist, agriculturist, agrologist, agronomist, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, coffee-planter, collective farm worker, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator, crofter, cropper, cultivator, designer, deviser, dirt farmer, discoverer, dry farmer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, farm laborer, farmer, farmhand, father, founder, generator, gentleman farmer, granger, grower, harvester, harvestman, haymaker, husbandman, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman, kibbutznik, kolkhoznik, kulak, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, muzhik, organizer, originator, past master, peasant, peasant holder, picker, planner, planter, plowboy, plowman, precursor, prime mover, producer, rancher, ranchman, realizer, reaper, rustic, shaper, sharecropper, sire, smith, sower, tea-planter, tenant farmer, tiller, tree farmer, truck farmer, wright, yeoman
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