beardern.
/ˈbɪədə/, U.S. /ˈbɪrdər/ A person who or thing which beards (in various senses of the verb).
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1614 R. Carew Excellencie Eng. Tongue in W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 41 To Aire, to beard..and their deriuations, ayring, ayred, bearder, bearding, bearded.
a1846 A. T. de Vere Mary Tudor (1847) i. i. i. 4 Awake avengers! Bearders of kings arise! And crush the caitiff!
1866 Sci. Amer. 19 May 336/3 The bearder..takes up three or four wires with his left hand..and places the ends upon a piece of iron.
1966 N. L. Kent Technol. Cereals xiv. 237 A machine used specially for rice is a bearder, which removes beards and stems of the rice plant.
1994 Emerge Nov. The most outrageous Black public figure in New York, shouldering the mantle of race crusader and bearder of White authority.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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