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Edder vs Vedder - What's the difference?

edder | vedder |

As nouns the difference between edder and vedder

is that edder is flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together or edder can be an adder or snake while vedder is .

As a verb edder

is (obsolete) to bind the top interweaving edder.

As a conjunction vedder is

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edder

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) ; akin to (etar).

Noun

(en noun)
  • Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To bind the top interweaving edder.
    • to edder a hedge

    Etymology 2

    See adder.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An adder or snake.
    • (Wright)
    (Webster 1913)

    vedder

    English

    Conjunction

    (English Conjunctions)
  • * 1914 , Bertrand W. Sinclair, North of Fifty-Three , Chapter XXXIV:
    • Und I dink der drouble iss largely dot der modern, high-bressure cifilization makes for der abnormal, vedder a man iss a millionaire or vorks in der brewery, contentment iss a state off der mind—und if der mind vorks mit logic it vill content find in der simple dings."

    Noun

    (-)
  • * 1903 , E. W. Hornung, No Hero , Chapter XII:
    • "Yes, sare," said the concierge, "the season end suddenly mit the bad vedder at the beginning of the veek.
  • *

    • Usage notes

    * Used to mimic certain accents, such as German.