Etymology
Origin of hedger
Example Sentences
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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
Two such I saw, what time the laboured ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
From L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas by Milton, John
Around the rotten tree the firetail mourns As the old hedger to his toil returns, Chopping the grain to stop the gap close by The hole where her blue eggs in safety lie.
From Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by Clare, John
Yet he did not spare rich nor poor: he preached at the Squire, and that great fat farmer, Mr. Bullock the church-warden, as boldly as at Hodge the ploughman, and Scrub the hedger.
From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 by Various
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