† rudersn.
Obsolete.
With plural agreement. = rudera n.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > that which is left or remainder > [noun] > remains > after destructive agency > decayed remnant(s) > of a building
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1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 65 These..keep their trade of hony-making in old trees, caues, holes, and in the ruders, and rubbish of old wals and houses.
1656 J. Harrington Common-wealth of Oceana 291 We are selling this stone which we have ignorantly raked out of the Roman ruders.
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. iii. 8 A..watch-tower, the ruines or rudders whereof still appear in a plat of Meadow ground.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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