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Eider vs Edder - What's the difference?

eider | edder |

As nouns the difference between eider and edder

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

As a verb edder is

(obsolete) to bind the top interweaving edder.

eider

English

(wikipedia eider) (Polysticta) (Somateria)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of the species of the genera Polysticta'' or ''Somateria , in the seaduck subfamily Merginae, which line their nests with fine down (taken from their own bodies).

    • Derived terms

    * eiderdown * common eider, Somateria mollissima * king eider, Somateria spectabilis * spectacled eider, Somateria fischeri * Steller's eider, Polysticta stelleri

    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)