Meaning of edder | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“[…] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones.”

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

“The scouring of the ditch is thrown up, a very thin stake and edder hedge is formed, and the rest of the wood made into bavins, and sold principally to bakers, at about a guinea per hundred delivered.”

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

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