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wedsetter

wedsetter is the alternative spelling of wadsetter.

Meaning of wadsetter

Noun

wadsetter (plural wadsetters)

  1. (Scotland) A person who holds tenure by wadset.
    • “[…] he had land and living, kept himself close from wadsetters and money-lenders, paid each man his due, and lived on his own.”1819, Walter Scott, chapter 6, in The Bride of Lammermoor

Forms of wedsetter

pluralwedsetters

Questions about wedsetter

What is wedsetter the alternative spelling of?
Wedsetter is the alternative spelling of wadsetter.

Words near wedsetter in the dictionary

  1. Wedowee
  2. weds
  3. wedset
  4. wedsets
  5. wedsetted
  6. wedsetter
  7. wedsetters
  8. wedsetting
  9. wedsite
  10. wedsites
  11. wedtro

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wedsetter (page history and authors); wadsetter (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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