▪ I. redder, n.1 Sc. and north.
(ˈrɛdə(r))
Also 6 Sc. reddar.
[f. redd v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who tries to separate combatants or to make peace in a quarrel. redder's lick = redding-stroke (see quot. 1802 and redding vbl. n.2 2).
| 1453 in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. III. 9 That nouther of thaim sal tak part with thaire awyn men bot be euynly reddaris and stanchearis of euill and debatis. 1579–80 Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. III. 268 The said provest..interponit himself as reddar betuix the saidis partiis. 1637 Monro Exped. ii. 70 The maker of a quarrell..drawing a sworde, when he knowes of twentie Parters, or Redders. a 1676 Guthry Mem. (1748) 261 They..were in an hour upon the place before any redders came; so that they had leisure enough to have fought, if they had been willing. 1774 Maclaurin Crim. Cases 54 The defunct, interposed as a redder between them, did casually receive the wound libelled. 1802 Sibbald Chron. S.P. Gloss. s.v. Red, Hence Redding blow or Redder's part, viz., a blow or hatred from both parties. 1820 Scott Abbot vii, He may come by the redder's lick, and that is ever the worst of the battle. 1848 in Evans Leicestersh. Gloss. |
2. One who clears up, puts in order, etc. Also redder-up.
| 1890 Daily News 7 Nov. 5/1 The agreeable objects which salute the eye of the ‘redder up’. 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., Redder, a shiftman at a colliery employed in reddin. |
▪ II. † ˈredder, n.2 Obs. rare—0.
[f. red v. + -er1.]
One who reddens or makes red.
| 1611 Cotgr., Saurisseur, a redder of Herrings. |
▪ III. † ˈredder, v. Obs. rare.
[Of obscure origin.]
Of cattle: To be in heat. Hence reddring-time.
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 128 b, Aristotle woulde haue him all the reddring time to goe in pasture with the Kine. Ibid. 127* The Cowe should when she is reddring, haue but short pasture. |