sawder

English

Etymology

By corruption.

Noun

sawder (plural sawders)

Archaic form of solder.
- 1666, Richard Head, The English Rogue Described, in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant, Francis Kirkman, page 195:
  His credit becomes suspected by his exorbitant manner of living in Drinking, Whoring, Gaming &c. He thinks to sawder up that crack by Marriage; he is deceived both in Person and Portion.

Derived terms

soft sawder

Verb

sawder (third-person singular simple present sawders, present participle sawdering, simple past and past participle sawdered)

Archaic form of solder.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for sawder in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Dewars, Seward, Swader, dewars, waders

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