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Definition of Sawder
1. n. A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder.
Definition of Sawder
1. to flatter [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: flatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sawder
Literary usage of Sawder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"It is done by a knowledge of saß sawder and human natur. ... We trust to soft
sawder to get them into the house, and to human natur that they never come out ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of Chancery of the State by New York (State). Court of Chancery, Lewis Halsey Sandford, 1807-1852 (1848)
"sawder and others. IN an inquiry as to Ihe mental capacity of a testator, his
case is not to be treated as one of general derangement of mind, ..."
3. My Life and Recollections by Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley (1866)
"... with Mr. Hawker — Jumping the sugar-casks — Soft sawder. ONE of the best of
sportsmen and best of fellows that ever lived was the late Jack Musters. ..."
4. Our Miscellany, which Ought to Have Come Out, But Didn't by Robert Barnabas Brough (1856)
"... sawder. I To boil Cabbage—it is necessary to procure a cabbage. Wash in cold
water; which, throw down a gutter, or outside a tent if no gutter be ..."
5. Columbian Fourth Reader by Thomas Rhys Vickroy (1894)
"SOFT sawder AND HUMAN NATURE. 1. In the course of a journey which Mr. Slick performs
in ... It is done by a knowledge of soft sawder and human nature. ..."
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