edder

Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɚ/

The English word “edder” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

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

verb

To bind the top of, interweaving edder.

Etymology

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.

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