Edder

Quick meaning: Edder is a noun meaning (usually in the plural) A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

Meaning

(usually in the plural) A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

More Meanings

1. An adder or snake.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To bind the top of, interweaving edder.

Example Sentences

to edder a hedge

The stake-and-edder hedge prevails in this district.

winges like a bird she hase, Fete as an edder, a mayden's face, Her kinde I'll take

Hazel and ash saplings make good switches, and there are many of these by the roadside, spraying like the forks of a fan. Later they will be used for "eddering" the other side of the lane.

Word Forms

• edders
• eddering
• eddered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include steddle, stob, edger, steeper, yadder, ale-stake.

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