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adder
1[ ad-er ]
noun
- the common European viper, Vipera berus.
- any of various other venomous or harmless snakes resembling the viper.
adder
2[ ad-er ]
noun
- a person or thing that adds.
adder
1/ ˈædə /
noun
- a person or thing that adds, esp a single element of an electronic computer, the function of which is to add a single digit of each of two inputs
adder
2/ ˈædə /
noun
- Also calledviper a common viper, Vipera berus, that is widely distributed in Europe, including Britain, and Asia and is typically dark greyish in colour with a black zigzag pattern along the back
- any of various similar venomous or nonvenomous snakes
Word History and Origins
Origin of adder1
Word History and Origins
Origin of adder1
Example Sentences
Many wonderful U.K. shows belong on this list ( Black Adder, I, Claudius, and Prime Suspect, to name but a few).
He comes from the tribe of Dan, of which it is written: 'Dan shall be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path.'
Well, by and by an adder bit a knight's heel; the knight forgot all about the order, and made a slash at the adder with his sword.
Then he would suddenly turn back to Digby, but would find him poring over a book, and as dumb as an adder.
At the same moment I saw a beautiful green adder come from a cleft of the mountain and crawl along the sand toward the bird.
Adder drove me down, and stopped his coach at the inn, and rowed me the half-mile up.
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