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Hedger   /hˈɛdʒər/   Listen
Hedger

noun
1.
A respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer.  Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator.
2.
Someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss.
3.
A gardener who takes care of and trims hedges.





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"Hedger" Quotes from Famous Books



... whenever her father appeared at the door of our cottage, we were sure to see Hannah More and Lady Morgan (as Anne Scott had wickedly christened them) trotting from their pasture to lay their noses over the paling, and, as Washington Irving says of the old white-haired hedger with the Parisian snuff-box, 'to have a ...
— Sir Walter Scott - (English Men of Letters Series) • Richard H. Hutton


Words linked to "Hedger" :   hedge, respondent, speculator, answerer, responder, gardener, plunger


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