| 单词 | redder | 
| 释义 | reddern.1 Scottish and English regional (northern and midlands). Now rare.  1.  A person who tries to separate combatants or to make peace in a quarrel. Now only in compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > 			[noun]		 > parting of combatants > one who parts combatants partera1425 redder1453 stickler1538 ridder1542 1453    in  Hist. MSS Comm.: 14th Rep.: App. Pt. III: MSS Duke of Roxburghe 		(1894)	 9 in  Parl. Papers (C. 7570) XLVI. 471  				That nouther of thaim sal tak part with thaire awyn men bot be euynly reddaris and stanchearis of euill and debatis. 1579–80    Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 1st Ser. III. 268  				The said provest..interponit himself as reddar betuix the saidis partiis. 1637    R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim.  ii. 70  				The maker of a quarrell..drawing a sworde, when he knowes of twentie Parters, or Redders. a1676    H. Guthry Mem. 		(1747)	 261  				They..were an hour upon the place before any redders came; so that they had leisure enough to have fought, if they had been willing. 1774    J. Maclaurin Arguments & Decisions Remarkable Cases 54  				The defunct, interposed as a redder between them, did casually receive the wound libelled. 1816    W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in  Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 71  				The redder gets aye the warst lick in the fray. 1848    A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 73  				Redder, a person who separates contending parties; one who parts combatants.  2.  A person who clears up, puts things in order, etc., spec. a person employed to clear away debris in a quarry or mine. Also  redder-up. ΚΠ 1609    Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 133v, in  Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Reddar  				Draweris of dead wark and reddaris of harlis shaft. 1628    in  J. Imrie  & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. 		(1982)	 II. 296  				To the redderis of the quarrell.., to the craig redder. 1713    in  W. Grossart Hist. Notices Parish Shotts 		(1880)	 240  				An oversman had one hundred pounds... The redder of the heugh had a firlot of meal and ane pound of candle in the week. 1749    in  W. Hector Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire II. 		(1878)	 193  				He and the rest of his companions..have for a long space bygone Entered into the Deffender's Barn, where two thresshers and a redder were at work. 1890    Daily News 7 Nov. 5/1  				The agreeable objects which salute the eye of the ‘redder up’. 1894    R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words  				Redder, a shiftman at a colliery employed in reddin. 1938    19th Cent. Mar. 322  				He called for someone to sort them [sc. papers and letters]... I suggested Baker as a redder-up. Compounds  In the genitive, designating a blow or mistreatment suffered by one who separates combatants (also figurative), as  redder's blow,  redder's lick,  redder's part,  redder's stroke. Cf. redding stroke n. at redding n.3 Compounds. ΚΠ 1691    G. Rule Farther Vindic. Church Scotl. 12  				Which is indeed a difficil task, wherein the redders blowes from both parties may rationally be expected. 1697    in  G. H. Rose Sel. Papers Earls of Marchmont 		(1831)	 III. 128  				[One week] the one side was offended at me, and another week the other; thus I plainly get the reddor's strokes. 1802    J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. at Red  				Hence Redding blow or Redder's part, viz., a blow or hatred from both parties. 1820    W. Scott Abbot I. vii. 159  				He may come by the redder's lick, and that is ever the worst of the battle. 1861    H. Keddie My Heart's in Highlands xxii. 401  				She was beaten and could not submit to her proverbially hard portion, the ‘redder's lick’. 1927    J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 182  				It's a kittle thing, and him that invokes it is like to get the redder's straik. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reddern.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.   A person who reddens or makes red (a thing).In quot. spec. a person who cures herrings (see red herring n. 1a). ΚΠ 1611    R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues  				Saurisseur, a redder of Herrings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † redderv. Obsolete. rare.   intransitive. Of cattle: to be in heat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > 			[verb (intransitive)]		 > be in heat redder1577 1577    B. Googe tr.  C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry  iii. f. 127*  				The Cowe should when she is reddring [L. circa tempus admissuræ], haue but short pasture. Derivatives  reddering  n. ΚΠ 1577    B. Googe tr.  C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry  iii. f. 128v  				Aristotle woulde haue him all the reddring time [L. tempore coitus] to goe in pasture with the Kine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < | 
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