单词 | redder |
释义 | reddern.1 Scottish and English regional (northern and midlands). Now rare. 1. A person who tries to separate combatants or to make peace in a quarrel. Now only in compounds. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > [noun] > parting of combatants > one who parts combatants partera1425 redder1453 stickler1538 ridder1542 1453 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 14th Rep.: App. Pt. III: MSS Duke of Roxburghe (1894) 9 in Parl. Papers (C. 7570) XLVI. 471 That nouther of thaim sal tak part with thaire awyn men bot be euynly reddaris and stanchearis of euill and debatis. 1579–80 Reg. Privy Council Scotl. 1st Ser. III. 268 The said provest..interponit himself as reddar betuix the saidis partiis. 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. ii. 70 The maker of a quarrell..drawing a sworde, when he knowes of twentie Parters, or Redders. a1676 H. Guthry Mem. (1747) 261 They..were an hour upon the place before any redders came; so that they had leisure enough to have fought, if they had been willing. 1774 J. Maclaurin Arguments & Decisions Remarkable Cases 54 The defunct, interposed as a redder between them, did casually receive the wound libelled. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. II. 71 The redder gets aye the warst lick in the fray. 1848 A. B. Evans Leicestershire Words 73 Redder, a person who separates contending parties; one who parts combatants. 2. A person who clears up, puts things in order, etc., spec. a person employed to clear away debris in a quarry or mine. Also redder-up. ΚΠ 1609 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. f. 133v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Reddar Draweris of dead wark and reddaris of harlis shaft. 1628 in J. Imrie & J. G. Dunbar Accts. Masters of Wks. (1982) II. 296 To the redderis of the quarrell.., to the craig redder. 1713 in W. Grossart Hist. Notices Parish Shotts (1880) 240 An oversman had one hundred pounds... The redder of the heugh had a firlot of meal and ane pound of candle in the week. 1749 in W. Hector Judicial Rec. Renfrewshire II. (1878) 193 He and the rest of his companions..have for a long space bygone Entered into the Deffender's Barn, where two thresshers and a redder were at work. 1890 Daily News 7 Nov. 5/1 The agreeable objects which salute the eye of the ‘redder up’. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Redder, a shiftman at a colliery employed in reddin. 1938 19th Cent. Mar. 322 He called for someone to sort them [sc. papers and letters]... I suggested Baker as a redder-up. Compounds In the genitive, designating a blow or mistreatment suffered by one who separates combatants (also figurative), as redder's blow, redder's lick, redder's part, redder's stroke. Cf. redding stroke n. at redding n.3 Compounds. ΚΠ 1691 G. Rule Farther Vindic. Church Scotl. 12 Which is indeed a difficil task, wherein the redders blowes from both parties may rationally be expected. 1697 in G. H. Rose Sel. Papers Earls of Marchmont (1831) III. 128 [One week] the one side was offended at me, and another week the other; thus I plainly get the reddor's strokes. 1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. at Red Hence Redding blow or Redder's part, viz., a blow or hatred from both parties. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. vii. 159 He may come by the redder's lick, and that is ever the worst of the battle. 1861 H. Keddie My Heart's in Highlands xxii. 401 She was beaten and could not submit to her proverbially hard portion, the ‘redder's lick’. 1927 J. Buchan Witch Wood xi. 182 It's a kittle thing, and him that invokes it is like to get the redder's straik. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † reddern.2 Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. A person who reddens or makes red (a thing).In quot. spec. a person who cures herrings (see red herring n. 1a). ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Saurisseur, a redder of Herrings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † redderv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. Of cattle: to be in heat. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > bos taurus or ox > [verb (intransitive)] > be in heat redder1577 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 127* The Cowe should when she is reddring [L. circa tempus admissuræ], haue but short pasture. Derivatives reddering n. ΚΠ 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 128v Aristotle woulde haue him all the reddring time [L. tempore coitus] to goe in pasture with the Kine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.11453n.21611v.1577 |
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