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aider

noun
/ˈeɪdə/UK/ˈeɪdɚ/US

Etymology

From aid + -er.

  1. derived from adiuto — “to assist, help”
  2. derived from eide
  3. inherited from aide
  4. suffixed as aider — “aid + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who aids or assists.

    • The capitaines of the toune seyng theire pillers borken, and their chief ayders discomfited, rendered the toune to the duke of Somerset,
    • […] arte is neither an aider nor a surmounter, but onely a bare immitatour of natures works, following and counterfeyting her actions and effects […]
    • […] being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—[…]—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, […]

  2. A mountaineer's stirrup or étrier.

    • As I was switching my feet in my aiders, the hook popped.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA