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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



... nobody but your own guilty self knew that you were the sinner he was exhorting. Yet he did not spare rich nor poor: he preached at the squire, and that great fat farmer, Mr. Bullock, the churchwarden, as boldly as at Hodge the ploughman and Scrub the hedger. As for Mr. Stirn, he had preached at him more often than at any one in the parish; but Stirn, though he had the sense to know it, never had the grace to reform. There was, too, in Parson Dale's sermons something of that boldness of illustration which would have been scholarly if he had not ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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