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Hedger

noun

A respondent who avoids giving a clear direct answer. Synonyms: equivocator, tergiversator.

Someone who counterbalances one transaction (as a bet) against another in order to protect against loss.

A gardener who takes care of and trims hedges.

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"Hedger" Quotes from Famous Books

... is an applicant for my temporarily vacant situation as working gardener, assistant hedger and ditcher and superintending odd man (single-handed), has referred me to you as to his character and qualifications, stating that he was in your employment—I gather some nine years ago—for a time. You will therefore, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 15, 1914 • Various

... my own remembrance that the road from Birkendelly to the great muckle village of Balmawhapple (commonly called the muckle town, in opposition to the little town that stood on the other side of the burn)—that road, I say, lay between two thorn-hedges, so well kept by the Laird's hedger, so close, and so high, that a rabbit could not have escaped from the highway into any of the adjoining fields. Along this road was the Laird riding on the Eve of St. Lawrence, in a careless, indifferent manner, with his hat to one side, and his cane dancing a hornpipe before him. He was, moreover, ...

— The Great English Short-Story Writers, Vol. 1 • Various

... Hildred the poor hedger Cut down four captains dead, And Halmar laid three others low, And the great earls wavered to and fro For the ...

— The Ballad of the White Horse • G.K. Chesterton

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