medder

"How about pets known as medder hummin'-birds?" demanded Todd.

The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

He threw out the sophisticated wordplay of Broadway lyrics — Irving Berlin's ragged rhymes, Ira Gershwin's puns, Lorenz Hart's triple rhymes — and replaced it with simple but memorable imagery, the bright golden haze on the "medder," that linked characters and setting.

Out of Our Dreams 2002

He threw out the sophisticated wordplay of Broadway lyrics — Irving Berlin's ragged rhymes, Ira Gershwin's puns, Lorenz Hart's triple rhymes — and replaced it with simple but memorable imagery, the bright golden haze on the "medder," that linked characters and setting.

Out of Our Dreams 2002

"You've come down in Deacon Peck's north medder lot."

Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous

And the mockin 'birds are singin' to the lovely medder lark;

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

"Over in th 'south medder, two miles away," replied the man.

The Motor Girls Margaret Penrose

The rain comes in through the roof of the old one so's you might a'most as well be laying in the open medder.

The House of Arden Edith 1923

The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;

When the Frost is on the Punkin 1919

Around the bend -- near the medder where Si Barker's dog killed a woodchuck last summer -- we meet the rest.

Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know Asa Don Dickinson 1918

I 'm goin' on down into the medder and work on a ditch I 'm puttin' in.

The Ranch at the Wolverine 1914