▪ I. ˈridder, n.1 Now dial.
Forms: 1 hrider, hridder 5 rydder, erron. rydoun, 7–9 dial. ridder, rudder, ruther.
[OE. hrider, later hridder, from a stem hrid- to shake (cf. hriðian to shake with fever), an ablaut-variant of which is represented by OHG. rîtera, rîtra (MHG. rîtere, rîter, G. reiter), and more remotely by L. crībrum, Ir. criathar. In later Eng. the more usual form is riddle n.2]
A sieve or riddle.
| c 725 Corpus Gloss., Glebulum, hrider. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 154 Ða abæd his fostormodor an hridder. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxxxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Corne is iclensed w{supt} seue oþer wiþ rydderne. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 32 Take a seve or a whete rydoun, & ley þin pesyn þer-on. 1619–20 in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Accts. (1896) 309 A sieve called a Rudder, 4d. 1667 Phil. Trans. II. 527 Wash it [lead-ore] clean in a running stream; then sift it in Iron-Rudders. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. 331 Rudder, or Ridder, the widest sort of Sieves for the separating the Corn from the Chaff. a 1722 Lisle Husb. (E.D.S.) s.v. Rudder, They said..the rudder would easily separate tills and barley. 1750 [see ridder v.1]. 1848– in southern dial. glossaries. 1856 Morton Cyclop. Agric. I. 194/1 Wheat ‘Rudder’, twenty inches diameter... Barley Rudder. 1884 West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., Bushel, shaul, shovel, ridder, sieves [etc.]. |
| Prov. 1678 Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 289 As much sib'd as sieve and ridder, that grew in the same wood together. |
▪ II. ˈridder, n.2 rare.
[f. rid v. + -er1.]
1. One who rids; a deliverer.
| c 1521 J. Heywood Pardoner & Friar Plays (1905) 14 This is the pardon, the ridder of your sin. |
2. Sc. = redder n.1 1.
| 1624 in Maidment Spottiswoode Misc. (1845) II. 307 The said Alexander alleged that..he was a ridder and intervener between them that not one of them should hurt another. 1637 Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (Spalding Cl.) 12 He..was a ridder only between him and John Milne. 1862 Whately Comm.-pl. Bk. (1864) 214 The Scotch proverb that ‘the ridder gets aye the worst stroke in the fray’. |
▪ III. † ˈridder, n.3 Obs.—1.
[a. obs. F. ridde, rid(d)re, rider, a. Flem. rijder, ridder knight.]
= rider n. 3.
| 1694 Motteux Rabelais iv. Prol. (1737) p. lxxxv, Substantial Ridders, Spankers, and Rose Nobles. |
▪ IV. ˈridder, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also rudder.
[OE. hridrian, f. hridder ridder n.1]
trans. To sift, riddle.
| c 1000 Ags. Gosp. Luke xxii. 31 Nu satanas ᵹyrnde þæt he eow hridrude [Hatton riddrede] swa swa hwæte. 1750 Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. iii. 60 Riddering is also applied to cleaning wheat by means of a large sieve or wheat-ridder. Ibid. 72 To ridder or riddle it. 1893 Wiltshire Gloss., Rudder,..to sift. |
▪ V. ˈridder, v.2 rare—1.
(See quot.)
| 1750 Ellis Mod. Husbandm. I. xii. 92 When the hedge is riddered, as we call it, that is, when all the superfluous wood..is taken out. |