alders

Noun (1)

alder (plural alders)

1. Any of several trees or shrubs of the genus Alnus, belonging to the birch family.
   • I’ve known ere now an interfering branch / Of alder catch my lifted axe behind me. / But that was in the woods, to hold my hand / From striking at another alder’s roots, / And that was, as I say, an alder branch.1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Notes.] The Axe-helve.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 37

Noun (2)

alder (plural alders)

1. An alderman or alderwoman.
   • Almost immediately, city alders contacted the campaign to negotiate an ordinance.2004, Stephanie Luce -, Fighting for a Living Wage, page 121

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