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hedger

hedger noun: one who makes or mends hedges.

Noun

hedger (plural hedgers)

  1. One who makes or mends hedges.
    • But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13
  2. One who hedges, for example in betting.

Proper noun capitalized: Hedger

Hedger (plural Hedgers)

  1. A surname.

hedger meaning in Tamil

hedger in Tamil

வேலியடைப்போன்

Forms of hedger

Noun
pluralhedgers
Proper noun
pluralHedgers

Origin of hedger

From Middle English hegger, equivalent to hedge + -er.

From Middle English Hegger, Heger, from hegger (“one who makes or repairs hedges, a hedger”).

Questions about hedger

What does hedger mean?
Hedger means one who makes or mends hedges.
What is hedger in Tamil?
Hedger in Tamil is வேலியடைப்போன். See Hedger meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hedger?
Hedger can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of hedger?
The plural of hedger is hedgers.

Words near hedger in the dictionary

  1. hedgenettles
  2. Hedgepeth
  3. Hedgepeths
  4. hedgepig
  5. hedgepigs
  6. hedger
  7. hedgerow
  8. hedgerow jellies
  9. hedgerow jelly
  10. hedgerowed
  11. hedgerowless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hedger (page history and authors); Hedger (page history and authors); hedger (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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