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▪ I. † ˈcolder, -yr, n.1 Obs. rare.
Also coolder.
[Of uncertain derivation, as is the adduced synonym schuldere. Way compares next word.]
? Clippings of stone.
c1440Promp. Parv. 86 Coolder, schuldere [v.r. coldyr], petrosa, petro. [Cf. Catholicon ‘Petrones sunt particule que abscinduntur de petris’ (Way).]
▪ II. colder, n.2 Agric. local.|ˈkəʊldə(r)|
[Etymology unknown: see prec.]
Ears of which the corn does not separate from the chaff by ordinary threshing. (Cullum 1784.)
1784Sir J. Cullum Hist. Hawsted 219 Chaff, colder, and stover. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words, Colder, Light ears and chaff left in the Caving-sieve, after dressing corn. It is also called Caving or the Cavings and Cosh. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Colder, broken ears of corn mixed with short fragments of straw, beaten off by the flail. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 118 Hay or straw, with a few turnip tops and barley ‘colder’, all cut into fine chaff. |