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Widder vs Winder - What's the difference?

widder | winder |

As nouns the difference between widder and winder

is that widder is eye dialect of lang=en while winder is a textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth.

As a verb winder is

to fan; to clean grain with a fan.

As a proper noun Winder is

{{surname|lang=en}.

widder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=At the sewing- society the matter was fully discussed. Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes! he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,--not he!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1884, author=William O. Stoddard, title=Dab Kinzer, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news:-- "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles W. Chesnutt, title=The Marrow of Tradition, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not. " }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Marie Conway Oemler, title=The Purple Heights, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder : she's too darn good-lookin'." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1958, author=Robert W. Service, title=Ballads of a Bohemian, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome, Sydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell; Joe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome, Only son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well. }}

    winder

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A textile worker, or machine, that winds cloth
  • A spool around which something is wound
  • A key or knob for winding a clock, watch or clockwork mechanism
  • One of the steps of a spiral staircase (as opposed to a flyer, or straight step).

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (slang) A blow that winds somebody, or takes away their breath.
  • *1913 ,
  • *:"Well!" exclaimed the miner. "That's a winder ." He considered it a moment, said "H'm!" and proceeded with his dinner. Suddenly his face contracted with wrath. "I hope he may never set foot i' my house again," he said.

    • Etymology 3

    Related to winnow.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fan; to clean grain with a fan.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • * 1868 , Ann Sophia Stephens, Doubly False
    • That accounts for my having the dress, but it don't account for the piece that you left sticking to the rose-bush under Mrs. Lander's bed-room winder , which piece I took off that morning, and which piece I matched with the dress after you pitched it at me over them bannisters

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