English Explanatory Dictionary

yielder

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone or something that yields a crop or other product.
  2. Someone or something that yields, or gives way.

Word forms

yielder yielders

Etymology

From Middle English yeldere, ȝelder, ȝeldere, continuing (with change of suffix) Old English ġylda, ġilda (“one who pays, yielder”), from Proto-West Germanic *geldō (“payer”). Equivalent to yield + -er.

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