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hedge rider

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1883, Translation of Havamal, in Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (editors, translators), Corpvs Poeticvm Boreale: The Poetry of the Old Northern Tongue, Volume 1: Eddic Poetry, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), page 27, 18. The tenth I know: If I see witches [hedge-riders] dancing in the air, I prevail so that they go astray and cannot find their own skins and their own haunts.

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History

Etymology

See hedge riding.