different between hander vs hadder

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hænd?(?)/
• Rhymes: -ænd?(r)

Etymology 1

hand (verb) +? -er

Noun

hander (plural handers)

1. One who hands over or transmits; a conveyor in succession
   • 1682, John Dryden, Religio Laici

     Of that vast Frame, the Church; yet grant they were
     The handers down, can they from thence infer
     A right t'interpret?

Translations

Etymology 2

hand (noun) +? -er

Noun

hander (plural handers)

1. (in combinations) Something having, using, or requiring, a certain hand, or number of hands
2. (archaic, slang) A blow on the hand as punishment.
   • 1959, The Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Lords official report (page 507)

     I got six "handers", and it hurt. It taught me my lesson, and I never slid down the banisters again.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Harden, Harned, Hendra, harden

English

Etymology

From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *h?ddre, a variant of h?þ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæd?(?)/

Noun

hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) heather; heath

Middle Dutch

Contraction

hadder

1. Contraction of hadde d?er.