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hedge rider

hedge rider noun: a witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch.

Noun

hedge rider (plural hedge riders)

  1. A witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch.
    • 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.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...
    • Witches, who were usually homeless and gaunt and sometimes crippled, were said to be hedge-riders; they roamed the darkened roads by the edge of town and were reputed to live in two realities by straddling the hedges between the civilized safety of a small village and the real and imagined dangers...2007, Doug Lennox, Now You Know Big Book of Answers, Dundurn Press, page 118

Forms of hedge rider

pluralhedge riders

Origin of hedge rider

See hedge riding.

Questions about hedge rider

What does hedge rider mean?
Hedge rider means a witch who practises hedge riding; a hedge witch.
What part of speech is hedge rider?
Hedge rider is a noun.
What is the plural of hedge rider?
The plural of hedge rider is hedge riders.

Words near hedge rider in the dictionary

  1. hedge parson
  2. hedge parsons
  3. hedge popping
  4. hedge priest
  5. hedge priests
  6. hedge rider
  7. hedge riders
  8. hedge riding
  9. hedge school
  10. hedge schools
  11. hedge sermon

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