yedder, n. north. dial.
(ˈjɛdə(r))
Forms: 5 ȝedd-, yeddyr, 6 ȝedder, 7–9 yeather, 8–9 yether, 9 yadder, 6– yedder.
[Variant of edder n.]
1. An osier, or rod of pliant wood, used for binding a hedge. Also attrib.
| 1512–13 Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 106 Pro cariag. xij plaustrat. lez thornes, ȝedders, et rysez ad prædict. sepes. 17.. [see strut n.2 1 b]. 1691 Ray N.C. Words 152 A yeather, vimen. 1764 Museum Rust. III. iv. 10 Yethers (as binders of hassel or willow are here [sc. Yorks.] called). 1779 Charlton Hist. Whitby 96 A certain stake and yether hedge. 1829 J. Hodgson in J. Raine Mem. (1858) II. 156 Great abundance of fine osiers will be thus produced, but a few of the strongest shoots should be left on each stake, for other stakes and poles and yeathers. 1852 Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XIII. ii. 281 Farmers find posts and rails cheaper..than the old system of ‘stake and vice’. Footnote. Called..in some parts..‘stower and yedder’. 1876 Whitby Gloss., Yethers, oziers and similar flexibilities. |
2. The mark of a blow or stripe, or that made by tight binding; a weal. Also, a smart blow.
| c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 286 He..grapyd his bakk, & it was passand sare & full of yeddyrs & wowndis as he had bene betyn. 1483 Cath. Angl. 426/1 A ȝeddyr, liuor, vibex. 1535 Coverdale Ecclus. xxviii. 17 The stroke of y⊇ rod maketh yedders. 1802 Sibbald Chron. S.P. IV. Gloss., Yether, the mark left by tight binding, as with a small cord. 1825 Jamieson, Yether,..a severe blow, Upp. Clydes. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Yether, a discolouration of the skin caused by a blow. |
Hence ˈyedder v. (see quots.).
| [1523 edderinges: see edder. 1691 Ray N.C. Words 152 Eathering of hedges being binding the tops of them with small sticks as it were wooven on the stakes.] 1818 Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck etc. II. 131, I hae heard o' some o' them that fought the deil,..yethered him and yerked him till he coudna mou' another curse. 1825 Jamieson, To Yether,..to bind firmly, Roxb. 1825 in Hone Every-day Bk. I. 1381 Yadder them with your yadders, and..stake them on each side, with street stowers. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., To Yedder or Yether, to interweave or connect with pliable twigs or osiers a row of upright sticks or stobs in hedge work. 1876 Ibid., Yether, v. to interweave with twigs, as in basket-making. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Yether, v. to lash with a whip. |