yedder

plural yedders

1. UKalternativedialectalAlternative form of edder (“flexible wood used in binding hedge stakes”).

   they whack wi' their yedders

   1876, Dickinson, Cumbr., page 242

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   […] you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each a yard apart, and so yedder them with your yedders, and so stake them with your strut stowers, that they may stand three tides without removing by the force thereof.

   1855, Francis Kildale Robinson, A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Allusions to Local Customs and Trditions, page 129

   Hence the request that they should repair to the wood on Ascension Eve to prepare their stakes, their stowers, and their yedders, and bring them on their backs to the place fixed upon for their planting by "nine in the morning." Of course, Ascension Day is determined by Easter, which is regulated by the moon, and the moon regulates the tides[…]

   1897, Horne's Guide to Whitby, Profusely Illustrated: Giving a Detailed Description of Places of Interest, Streets, Roads and Footpaths in and Around Whitby, page 28

   "But 'e's biddable as a yedder, an' never [has] a fixed idea of 'is own. I dun't rightly think 'e's ever called owt else.” She realised my confusion. “A yedder's weaved through a stake to make a fence or bind an 'edge, you see. It bends this way an' that[…]"

   2016 November 1, Allison Littlewood, The Hidden People, Jo Fletcher Books, →ISBN

present singular third person yedders · participle present yeddering · participle past yeddered · past yeddered

1. UKalternativedialectalAlternative form of edder.

   […] you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each a yard apart, and so yedder them with your yedders, and so stake them with your strut stowers, that they may stand three tides without removing by the force thereof.

   1855, Francis Kildale Robinson, A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the Neighbourhood. With Examples of Their Colloquial Use, and Allusions to Local Customs and Trditions, page 129