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ver•der•er
(vûr′dər ər),USA pronunciation n.
ver′der•er•ship′, n.
- World Historyan English judicial officer in the royal forests having charge esp. of the vert, or trees and undergrowth.
- Latin viridārius, equivalent. to virid(is) green + -ārius -ary (see -er2); doubling of -er in Anglo-French perh. by falsely taking verder as a form of verdure verdure
- Anglo-French verderer, Old French verd(i)er
- 1535–45