▪ I. bedder1
(ˈbɛdə(r))
Also 8 beder.
[f. bed v. or n. + -er1. With sense 2, cf. hedger, potter; with 3, cf. header, drawer.]
1. One who puts to bed; one who litters cattle.
| c 1612 Fletcher Thierry i. 450 All your guilded knaves, brokers, and bedders. |
† 2. A bed-maker, an upholsterer. Obs. or dial.
| 1803 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 273 Upholsterer, Called..in some parts of the kingdom..a bedder. |
3. The lower stone in an oil-mill; the bed-stone.
| 1611 Cotgr., Gisant d'vn moulin, the Bed, Bedder, or under-millstone. 1706 Phillips, Bedder, bedetter, the neither-stone of an Oil-mill. 1755 in Johnson: and in mod Dicts. |
4. A plant adapted for being grown in a flower bed; a ‘bedding-out plant.’
| 1862 Times 10 Apr., Plants..possessing the properties required in bedders, that is..adapted to form masses of uniform colour. 1882 Garden 21 Jan. 34/1 It will be a new sensation..to grow bedders on rockwork. |
5. (See quot.)
| 1879 C. Hibbs Jewellery in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 309/1 It was the custom formerly to lay a heavy block of iron, called a ‘bedder,’ on the two metals and strike upon it with sledge hammers until..the contact was complete. |
▪ II. bedder2
(ˈbɛdə(r))
[See -er1.]
One who goes to bed. In collocations early bedder, late (go-to-) bedder.
| 1908 Daily Chron. 27 Oct. 6/7 The late-go-to-bedder and the early riser. 1921 Glasgow Herald 19 May 6 Our forefathers were ‘earlier bedders’ and risers than the present artificial age. 1961 Y. Olsson Syntax Eng. Verb vi. 125 He's a late bedder and a later riser. |
▪ III. bedder3 slang.
(ˈbɛdə(r))
[See -er6.]
A bedroom.
| 1897 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/3 She'd want to come up to my bedder and give me Somebody's beastly food for infants. 1908 D. Coke House Prefect xvii. 219 He's been nabbed, and shut up in his bedder. |