risers

noun

1. 1

   Someone or something which rises.

2. 2

   A platform or stand used to lift or elevate something.

   “The choir stood on risers for the performance.”

3. 3

   The vertical part of a step on a staircase.

4. 4

   The main body of a bow.

5. 5

   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).

6. 6

   A pipe connecting an individual exhaust port of an internal combustion engine to the muffler, particularly on aircraft.

7. 7

   A Manx cat with a showable short tail.

8. 8

   A strip of webbing joining a parachute's harness to the rigging lines.