hadder

English

Etymology

From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.

Noun

hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) heather; heath
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hadder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Middle Dutch

Contraction

hadder

  1. Contraction of hadde dāer.
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