reeder
(ˈriːdə(r))
Also 5 redare, 6 reider.
[f. reed v. and n.1 + -er1.]
1. One who thatches with reeds, a thatcher. ? Obs.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 426/2 Redare, of howsys, calamator, arundinarius, cannarius. 1552 Huloet, Reider of houses or thacker, arundinarius. 1610 in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1898) XIII. 524 Thatcher, Reeder, or Fleeker vii d. |
2. A thatched frame used to protect blocks or tiles of china-clay from rain.
| 1880 Spons' Encycl. Manuf. I. 637 The blocks [of china-clay] are then collected, and piled away in sheds, under a number of thatched gates or ‘reeders’. |