hedger

[ hej-er ]

noun

1. a person who makes or repairs hedges.
2. a person who hedges in betting, speculating, etc.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hedger¹

1250–1300; Middle English (in surnames); hedge, -er ¹

Example Sentences

A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.

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But this restless Proteus masqueraded through a score of other characters—as seedsman, harvester, hedger and ditcher, etc.

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I stood close to a hedger and ditcher, who, standing on a board, was cleaning out the mud that the water might run freely.

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He would be laughed at that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger at past fifty.

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One roughly cut the margins off his books with a knife, hacking away very much like a hedger and ditcher.

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