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▪ I. bedder1|ˈbɛdə(r)|
Also 8 beder.
[f. bed v. or n. + -er1. With sense 2, cf. hedger, potter; with 3, cf. header, drawer.]
1. One who puts to bed; one who litters cattle.
c1612Fletcher Thierry i. 450 All your guilded knaves, brokers, and bedders.
†2. A bed-maker, an upholsterer. Obs. or dial.
1803S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. 273 Upholsterer, Called..in some parts of the kingdom..a bedder.
3. The lower stone in an oil-mill; the bed-stone.
1611Cotgr., Gisant d'vn moulin, the Bed, Bedder, or under-millstone. 1706Phillips, Bedder, bedetter, the neither-stone of an Oil-mill. 1755in Johnson: and in mod Dicts.
4. A plant adapted for being grown in a flower bed; a ‘bedding-out plant.’
1862Times 10 Apr., Plants..possessing the properties required in bedders, that is..adapted to form masses of uniform colour. 1882Garden 21 Jan. 34/1 It will be a new sensation..to grow bedders on rockwork.
5. (See quot.)
1879C. Hibbs Jewellery in Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 309/1 It was the custom formerly to lay a heavy block of iron, called a ‘bedder,’ on the two metals and strike upon it with sledge hammers until..the contact was complete.
▪ II. bedder2|ˈbɛdə(r)|
[See -er1.]
One who goes to bed. In collocations early bedder, late (go-to-) bedder.
1908Daily Chron. 27 Oct. 6/7 The late-go-to-bedder and the early riser. 1921Glasgow Herald 19 May 6 Our forefathers were ‘earlier bedders’ and risers than the present artificial age. 1961Y. Olsson Syntax Eng. Verb vi. 125 He's a late bedder and a later riser.
▪ III. bedder3 slang.|ˈbɛdə(r)|
[See -er6.]
A bedroom.
1897Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/3 She'd want to come up to my bedder and give me Somebody's beastly food for infants. 1908D. Coke House Prefect xvii. 219 He's been nabbed, and shut up in his bedder. |