Talk:edder

Cites of other spellings of the noun, from the EED: - -sche (discuss) 16:51, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) * 1807, Arthur Young, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Essex, page 181:
 * whole length of his hedge, or as far as he chooses to complete it at a time. Then takes his eathers, as they are here styled (for I believe it is merely a provincial term signifying the longer boughs in his cut down wood, or obtained elsewhere, as it may happen, in size about as large as a man's finger),
 * 1) * 1817, Marshall, Review, V, page 430:
 * Stakes and ethers are cut out before the faggots are made.
 * 1) * 1825, Wil. Britton, Beauties:
 * The wold man's aater'n wi' a ether.

RFV discussion: December 2023–March 2024
RFV of "blood vessel" (the third ety section). Inspired by the earlier RFV, I cited the wood senses, and although I can't readily find more cites of "adder" it's plausible, but searching for "edder" + blood turns up only cases where "edder" is a scanno of something else. Perhaps I just don't know what collocations to search for. - -sche (discuss) 17:04, 16 December 2023 (UTC)


 * The OED lists "eddre" as having this meaning, but it died out in Middle English. Checking their cites, it was never spelt like that. CitationsFreak (talk) 04:35, 22 December 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 03:59, 9 March 2024 (UTC)