medders

(I think he said "medders" and "crick," and his "nor" sounded as if he put an _e_ in it.) "There are a good many things we should have to leave behind."

A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

Actually, it was from my technorati feed, medders.

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An 'then ye look at the medders an' ye see thet, barrin 'a big boulder or two an' some stuns thet an ox-team can cart off, an 'some gullyin' out long the highroad, they ain't been hurt a mite.

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

When we couldn't see no more, we went home by the high road, because we knowed the brook 'u'd be out acrost the medders, an' we wasn't goin 'to hunt for Jim's little rotten old bridge in that dark -- an' rainin 'Heavens' hard, too.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

We're going to make six hundred tons of hay right out there in them medders this summer.

The Sagebrusher A Story of the West Emerson Hough 1890

She de beatenes 't'ing dat evah struck de medders o' de town,

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

Did ye ever hear tell o 'George the Third, King of England, Alcestis, or ain't he known over to the crambry medders?

Homespun Tales Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Snow 's a-fallin 'on de medders, all erroun' me now is white,

The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

'Please, sir, I finished with the Hall medders yesterday, and Mr. Carter's job don't begin till to-morrow.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

'Please, sir, I finished with the Hall medders yesterday, and Mr. Carter's job don't begin till to-morrow.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885