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 winter, the low-lying lands are seldom visited by the peasantry, except when the dairymaid drives the cattle to and fro, or the hedger trims the undergrowth along the ditches.
From Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain by Alfred Wellesley Rees
Two such I saw, what time the labored ox In his loose traces from the furrow came, And the swinked hedger at his supper sat.
From Minor Poems by Milton by John Milton
The reddening light gains fast upon the skies, 2 And far away the glistening vapours sail, Down the rough steep the accustomed hedger hies, And the stream winds in brightness through the vale.
From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan
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