beddern.1
/ˈbɛdə/, U.S. /ˈbɛdər/ 1. One who puts to bed; one who litters cattle.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [noun] > bedding down > one who
bedder1621
winterer1776
1621 J. Fletcher et al. Trag. of Thierry & Theodoret i. i. sig. B2v All your guilded knaues, brokers, and bedders.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > bed-maker
bed-maker?1518
bed-joiner1725
bedder1803
1803 S. 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.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > oil-press or -mill > lower millstone
bedder1611
society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for altering consistency > [noun] > crushing or grinding > for oil > part of
bedder1611
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gisant d'vn moulin, the Bed, Bedder, or under-millstone.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Bedder, bedetter, the neither-stone of an Oil-mill.
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Bedder, the nether-stone of an oil-mill. [Also in mod. Dicts.]
4. A plant adapted for being grown in a flower bed; a ‘bedding-out plant’.
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the world > plants > wild and cultivated plants > [noun] > cultivated or planted > in particular place or receptacle
stove-plant1778
pot plant1824
window plant1831
border-flower1850
bedding-plant1856
bedder1862
bedding-out plant1865
pot-herb1882
1862 Times 10 Apr. Plants..possessing the properties required in bedders, that is..adapted to form masses of uniform colour.
1882 Garden 21 Jan. 34/1 It will be a new sensation..to grow bedders on rockwork.
5. (See quot. 1879.)
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1879 C. Hibbs Jewellery in Cassell's Techn. Educator 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
beddern.2
/ˈbɛdə/, U.S. /ˈbɛdər/ One who goes to bed. In collocations early bedder, late (go-to-) bedder.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > bed related to sleep or rest > [noun] > one who goes to bed at a certain time
early bedder1908
1908 Daily Chron. 27 Oct. 6/7 The late-go-to-bedder and the early riser.
1921 Glasgow Herald 19 May 6 Our forefathers were ‘earlier bedders’ and risers than the present artificial age.
1961 Y. Olsson On Syntax Eng. Verb vi. 125 He's a late bedder and a later riser.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
beddern.3
/ˈbɛdə/, U.S. /ˈbɛdər/ slang.
A bedroom.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > bedroom
clevec825
bedchamberc1390
wardrobea1400
kuchiez kotec1400
garderobe?c1450
cubicle1483
pallet chambera1535
bed-place1566
kitchen chamber1573
bedroom1600
cubiculoa1616
lodginga1616
lodging-room1615
bower1674
ruelle1676
lodging-chambera1684
common chamber1684
sleeping-room1699
hall-bedroom1738
berth1806
bunk-room1855
bed-house1881
cubicule1887
bedder1897
bed1926
sleeping-platform1935
roomette1937
single1963
maid-room1992
1897 Westm. Gaz. 2 Feb. 1/3 She'd want to come up to my bedder and give me Somebody's beastly food for infants.
1908 D. Coke House Prefect xvii. 219 He's been nabbed, and shut up in his bedder.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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