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Had(d)er, Had(d)ir, n. Also: haddar, had(d)yr, hodder. [Of uncertain origin; in this form orig. Sc., but recorded also in the 17th c. north. Eng. dialects. See also Hather and Hedder.] Heather.(a) 1399 Carnegie Chart. 500.
Congregante genestam vulgo lie hadder intra limites dicte more c1500-c1512 Dunb. lxvi. 86.
Greit abbais grayth I nill to gather, Bot ane kirk scant coverit with hadder 1512–3 Treas. Acc. IV. 465.
For vj turs of hadder for to dry the tollis [= towis] 1531 Bell. Boece I. p. xlii.
Mure cokis and hennis, quhilkis etis … croppis of hadder Ib. p. xlv.
Ane herbe, namit hadder … hes ane floure of purpure hew 1537 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 692/1.
The wrangous … away-takin … of certane turvis, peittis, hadder, beand woun 1555–6 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 363.
For hadder to burne Inglische buiks on the mercat croce 1561 Treas. Acc. XI. 115.
For ane bote … costis, nalis, pik, moppet hadder, ruther pikis 1608 Hilderstoun Silver Mines I. 30 b.
Hadder for cradilling of the new schaftis 1612 Bk. Rates 313.
Hadder for spounges 1682 Inverness Rec. II. 311.(b) 1425 Acts II. 12/1.
That na … haddir na broume be put nere the fyre c1475 Wall. v. 300.
In heich haddyr Wallace and thai can twyn 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 379.
For haddir to talloune the schippes with, xvij d. 1533 Boece viii. viii. 266.
Thai … ruggit vp grete quantite of haddir Ib.
Thai made the haddir in faggaldis 1595 Douglas Bequest MS. (Reg. H.) 85/10 p. 43.
Fevall, pettis, turves and haddir in the mossis, mures and hillis(c) 1549 Reg. Cupar A. II. 60.
Providing alsway that the saidis James … sall nocht … mak impediment to ony of our tenentis … for pulling of haddar(d) 1461 Charter (Reg. H.) No. 362.
The forsaide landys … with wodis. … bromis, hader, breris [etc.] c1475 Wall. xi. 898.
Thai … Hadyr and hay bond apon flakys fast 1508 Treas. Acc. IV. .
For hadir to dry the gun stok

b. Attrib. with bussum, man, spounge, stak. 1556–7 Edinb. Old Acc. II. 73.
Coft ij dosone hadder bussomes to sowp the mouswalbis our all the kirk 1582 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 124.
xvj hadder bussumes to decht the sclattis & gutteris — 1611 Reg. Great S. 177/2.
Reservando ad lie hadderman dicte abbatie ejus terras et gressumas … consuetas — 1603 Montgomery Mem. II. 246.
For ane hader spounge, vi d. — 1582 Edinb. Test. XI. 347.
The said Alesone leuis … to the said Alexander hir part of ane hadder stak 1603 Moysie 52.
[He] pat ane candle and certane povlder in ane hadder stack of his fatheris 1634 Kirkcaldy Presb. 77.
He … lapp betwein hir shoulders and she fell over on the hadder stack 1646 Ib. 297.
He lay with hir once at his owne hodderstack