ridder
ridder Lexical Profile
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• noun
A person or thing that rids, clears, or frees someone or something from an unwanted burden or pest.
"The newly introduced beetle proved to be an effective ridder of invasive weeds in the pasture."
British A coarse-meshed sieve used for separating chaff from corn or for sifting soil, gravel, or cinders.
"The farmhand shook the ridder briskly to separate the stones and husks from the grain."
A medieval and early modern knight or mounted nobleman in the Low Countries and Scandinavia, or a gold coin minted in the Netherlands bearing the figure of a mounted knight.
"The museum's numismatic collection features a rare gold ridder minted in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century."
• Rhymes for ridder
Word Origin & Etymology
The agent noun meaning 'one who rids' is formed in English from the verb 'rid' (from Old Norse 'ryðja', meaning to clear land) plus the suffix '-er'. In the sense of a sieve, it is a dialectal variant of 'riddle', from Old English 'hriddel'.