Edder
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. plural-normally
"[…] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones."
- 2 An adder or snake.
"winges like a bird she hase, Fete as an edder, a mayden's face, Her kinde I'll take"
- 1 To bind the top of, interweaving edder. obsolete, transitive
"to edder a hedge"
Example
More examples"[…] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones."
Etymology
From Middle English *edre, *eder, from Old English eder, edor (“hedge, fence”), from Proto-Germanic *edaraz, *eduraz (“hedge, border”). Cognate with Old High German etar.
Variant of adder.
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