different between boulder vs woulder

English

Alternative forms

• bowlder, bulder (dated)

Etymology

From late Middle English bulder, possibly from Swedish bullersten (“noisy stone”), corresponding to buller (“noisy”) + sten (“stone”), or possibly from Dutch bolder (see bol (“sphere, ball, globe”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??l.d?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?bo?ld??/
• Rhymes: -??ld?(r)
• Homophone: bolder

Noun

boulder (plural boulders)

1. A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
2. (geology) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
3. A large marble, in children's games.
4. (climbing) A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.

Derived terms

• Boulder County
• bouldering

Translations

Verb

boulder (third-person singular simple present boulders, present participle bouldering, simple past and past participle bouldered)

1. (climbing) To engage in bouldering.

Anagrams

• doubler

English

Etymology

would +? -er

Noun

woulder (plural woulders)

1. (rare) Someone who would.
   • 1583, Robert Harrison, “A Little Treatise vppon the firste Verse of the 122. Psalm”, as printed in Leland Henry Carlson and Albert Peel (editors, 1953), Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts, Volume II: The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, Routledge (2003), ?ISBN, pages 91–92:

     It is not ynough to be wishers and woulders, as manie be at this daye counted religious and fauourers of gouernement, because they can saye: O wee muste praye, we me must pray: thereby satisfying them selues and others, being not a little gladd, that they may buye it so cheape, to sitt at their ease, and folowe the worlde.

   • a. 1636, Samuel Ward, “Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience”, in J. C. Ryle (editor), Sermons and Treatises, James Nichol (publisher, 1862), page 103:

     […] ; but then it must be meant, not every languishing and lazy flash of every wisher and woulder, but of a willer; and […]

   • 1989, Mr. Wall, transcribed in FSLIC Assistance Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, January 10, 1989,^[1] page 48:

     If we could deal with woulders and coulders, we would have a lot here.

Verb

woulder

1. Alternative spelling of woulda