hadder

English

Etymology

From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhædə(ɹ)/

Noun

hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) heather; heath
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hadder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• ADHDer

Middle Dutch

Contraction

hadder

1. Contraction of hadde dāer.