Etymology
Origin of hedger
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A spokesman for Southwest, the largest hedger among U.S. airlines, said last week that it actively participated in fuel hedging and has not changed its overall philosophy.
From Reuters ● Apr. 6, 2016
This is not to say that Gore is the only hedger in the race.
From Time Magazine Archive
In woods and glens I love to roam, When the tired hedger hies him home; Or by the woodland pool to rest, When pale the star looks on its breast.
From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirk White
A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
Ye will find it just as easy a life being the wife o’ a hedger as keeping a school—rather mair sae I apprehend, and mair profitable too.’
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
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