hedger

[ hej-er ]

noun

Origin of hedger

1250–1300; Middle English (in surnames); see hedge, -er¹

A couple of foggers and milkers, a hedger and ditcher, two or three women at times, and there is the end.
The Hills and the Vale | Richard Jefferies
But this restless Proteus masqueraded through a score of other characters—as seedsman, harvester, hedger and ditcher, etc.
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II (2 vols) | Thomas De Quincey
I stood close to a hedger and ditcher, who, standing on a board, was cleaning out the mud that the water might run freely.
Nature Near London | Richard Jefferies
He would be laughed at that should go about to make a fine dancer out of a country hedger at past fifty.
The Chautauquan, Vol. III, March 1883 | The Chautauquan Literary and Scientific Circle
One roughly cut the margins off his books with a knife, hacking away very much like a hedger and ditcher.
Enemies of Books | William Blades

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