Definition of EDDER

edder

Meanings

Plural: edders

Noun

  • A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
  • An adder or snake.

Verb

  • To bind the top of, interweaving edder.

Origin / 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.

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