edder

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.

edder (plural edders)

1. Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

edder (third-person singular simple present edders, present participle eddering, simple past and past participle eddered)

1. (obsolete) To bind the top interweaving edder.

   to edder a hedge

Variant of adder.

edder (plural edders)

1. An adder or snake.
   • 1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester:

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

From Middle English edre (“a vein, blood vessel”), from Old English ǣdre (“a vein, artery; sinew”), from Proto-West Germanic *ādrā (“vein”).

Cognates include (from Germanic) Old Saxon -āðara (Dutch ader), Old High German ādra (German Ader), Old Norse æðr (Swedish åder); (from Indo-European) Ancient Greek ἦτορ (êtor, “heart”), Latin uterus, Old Irish inathar (“entrails”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛd.ɚ/

edder (plural edders)

1. (rare, dialect or obsolete) A blood vessel.

   Roop, and I'll snithe your edders.

• dered, dreed