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hedger en · NOUN

Etymology

From Middle English hegger, equivalent to hedge + -er.

Meanings

1. One who makes or mends hedges.
   • But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers? 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 13:
2. One who hedges, for example in betting.

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