widder

[ wid-er ]

/ ˈwɪd ər /

Nearby words

by reduction of final vowel to ə and substitution of -er¹

I found out afterwards that the widder had more'n half promised to go with HIM.
Cape Cod Stories|Joseph C. Lincoln
I see the Widder Bostwick yesterday, she looks as starched up as ever.
Josh Billings, Hiz Sayings|Henry Wheeler Shaw
You come to see for a widder, and there warn't no widder for yer.
When Ghost Meets Ghost|William Frend De Morgan
Never seen sich a woman as the Widder Stickney for house-cleanin.
Sudden Jim|Clarence Budington Kelland

I suppose you've heard that the widder Rand has lost her boarder?
Chester Rand|Horatio Alger, Jr