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yedder

/ˈjɛdɚ/

yedder is the alternative form of edder.

Meaning of edder

Noun (1)

edder (plural edders)

  1. (plural-normally) A long flexible stick, rod or other piece of wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.
    • […] including the making [of] a stake and edder hedge. I had a large quantity of excellent manure out of this ditch, consisting of rotten wood, leaves, &c. &c. &c. But in this experiment I found that our stake and edder hedges are little more to be depended on than the fet ones.1771, Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture: Containing an Exact Register of All the Business Transacted During Five Years on Near Three Hundred Acres of Various Soils ... The Whole...

Noun (2)

edder (plural edders)

  1. An adder or snake.
    • winges like a bird she hase,
      Fete as an edder, a mayden's face,
      Her kinde I'll take1816, J. H. Hansall, The Stranger in Chester

See all 3 meanings of edder

Forms of yedder

Noun
pluralyedders
Verb
third-person singular presentyedders
present participleyeddering
past participleyeddered
pastyeddered

Questions about yedder

What is yedder the alternative form of?
Yedder is the alternative form of edder.
How do you pronounce yedder?
Yedder is pronounced /ˈjɛdɚ/.

Words near yedder in the dictionary

  1. yecoraite
  2. YECs
  3. Yecuana
  4. yed
  5. yedda
  6. yedder
  7. yeddered
  8. yeddering
  9. yedders
  10. yedding
  11. yeddings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yedder (page history and authors); edder (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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