yadder

Noun

yadder (plural yadders)

1. (dialectal, obsolete) A stake used for bracing.
   • and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another, and so yadder them with your yadders, and to stake them on each side with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, without removing by the force of the water;1815, Thomas Blount, Josiah Beckwith, Hercules Malebysse Beckwith -, Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Or, Ancient Tenures of Land, page 559

Interjection

1. Used to represent meaningless or implied verbiage.
   • It would be easy, and actually rather lazy of me, to regale you with all that stuff that you probably know already, like the Great Fire, Christopher Wren, the third biggest dome in the world, the Blitz, yadder, yadder, yadder.2011, Terry Wood, Kray Twins Ate My Eagle Steak Sandwich

Verb

yadder (third-person singular simple present yadders, present participle yaddering, simple past and past participle yaddered)

1. To babble; to talk or vocalize about trivialities.
   • But those of us today, much more heavily dosed with Miami Vice and The Sweeney, are naturally and constantly afraid in a town of any size, afraid of dark, wet streets and car tyres squealing round their corners, afraid of groups of footloose lads, barging down the pavements yaddering bits of...1988, Fred Inglis, Popular culture and political power, page 152
   • Writers are wordy people. They talk, they blab, they yadder.2004, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, page 261
2. To brace or reinforce with a yadder.
   • and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another, and so yadder them with your yadders, and to stake them on each side with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, without removing by the force of the water;1815, Thomas Blount, Josiah Beckwith, Hercules Malebysse Beckwith -, Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Or, Ancient Tenures of Land, page 559