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▪ I. ˈridder, n.1 Now dial.
Forms: 1 hrider, hridder 5 rydder, erron. rydoun, 7–9 dial. ridder, rudder, ruther.
[OE. hrider, later hridder, from a stem hrid- to shake (cf. hriðian to shake with fever), an ablaut-variant of which is represented by OHG. rîtera, rîtra (MHG. rîtere, rîter, G. reiter), and more remotely by L. crībrum, Ir. criathar. In later Eng. the more usual form is riddle n.2]
A sieve or riddle.
c725Corpus Gloss., Glebulum, hrider. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 154 Ða abæd his fostormodor an hridder. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxxxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Corne is iclensed wt seue oþer wiþ rydderne. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 32 Take a seve or a whete rydoun, & ley þin pesyn þer-on. 1619–20in Swayne Sarum Church-w. Accts. (1896) 309 A sieve called a Rudder, 4d. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 527 Wash it [lead-ore] clean in a running stream; then sift it in Iron-Rudders. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. 331 Rudder, or Ridder, the widest sort of Sieves for the separating the Corn from the Chaff. a1722Lisle Husb. (E.D.S.) s.v. Rudder, They said..the rudder would easily separate tills and barley. 1750[see ridder v.1]. 1848–in southern dial. glossaries. 1856Morton Cyclop. Agric. I. 194/1 Wheat ‘Rudder’, twenty inches diameter... Barley Rudder. 1884West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., Bushel, shaul, shovel, ridder, sieves [etc.].
Prov.1678Ray Prov. (ed. 2) 289 As much sib'd as sieve and ridder, that grew in the same wood together.
▪ II. ˈridder, n.2 rare.
[f. rid v. + -er1.]
1. One who rids; a deliverer.
c1521J. Heywood Pardoner & Friar Plays (1905) 14 This is the pardon, the ridder of your sin.
2. Sc. = redder n.1 1.
1624in Maidment Spottiswoode Misc. (1845) II. 307 The said Alexander alleged that..he was a ridder and intervener between them that not one of them should hurt another. 1637Presbytery Bk. Strathbogie (Spalding Cl.) 12 He..was a ridder only between him and John Milne. 1862Whately Comm.-pl. Bk. (1864) 214 The Scotch proverb that ‘the ridder gets aye the worst stroke in the fray’.
▪ III. † ˈridder, n.3 Obs.—1.
[a. obs. F. ridde, rid(d)re, rider, a. Flem. rijder, ridder knight.]
= rider n. 3.
1694Motteux Rabelais iv. Prol. (1737) p. lxxxv, Substantial Ridders, Spankers, and Rose Nobles.
▪ IV. ˈridder, v.1 Obs. exc. dial.
Also rudder.
[OE. hridrian, f. hridder ridder n.1]
trans. To sift, riddle.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Luke xxii. 31 Nu satanas ᵹyrnde þæt he eow hridrude [Hatton riddrede] swa swa hwæte. 1750Ellis Mod. Husbandm. VI. iii. 60 Riddering is also applied to cleaning wheat by means of a large sieve or wheat-ridder. Ibid. 72 To ridder or riddle it. 1893Wiltshire Gloss., Rudder,..to sift.
▪ V. ˈridder, v.2 rare—1.
(See quot.)
1750Ellis Mod. Husbandm. I. xii. 92 When the hedge is riddered, as we call it, that is, when all the superfluous wood..is taken out. |