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noun
A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural-normally
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noun
An adder or snake.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
To bind the top of, interweaving edder.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, transitive
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History
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.
