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▪ I. wadder1|ˈwɒdə(r)|
[f. wad v.1 + -er1.]
†1. An implement for wadding a gun. Obs.
1579Digges Stratiot. 115, I mighte here adioyne sundrye Tables..what Bullets, Wadders, Rammers, Ladles,..were conueniente to bee hadde in readinesse.
2. One who lays up (the cut haulm of beans, etc.) in bundles or ‘wads’.
1763Museum Rust. (ed. 2) I. 236 This..lays the beans in regular rows, and saves the expense of a wadder.
▪ II. † ˈwadder2 Land-surveying. Obs.
[f. wad v.2 + -er1.]
One who is engaged in determining a ‘wad’ or line of direction.
1610W. Folkingham Feudigr. ii. iv. 53 If out of sight..place two Assistants, the one at the marke, and the other at the eminentest Medium, and then your selfe standing at..the station giuen, and the first Assistant erecting some visible obiect, waft the Wadders into the Wadd.
▪ III. wadder
obs. Sc. form of wether. |