hedgerhedger means A surname. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.EtymologyFrom Middle English Hegger, Heger, from hegger (“one who makes or repairs hedges, a hedger”).nameA surname.nounOne who makes or mends hedges.“But what of that vast number of the human kind who were always in the background? What of the hewers of wood and drawers of water, the swineherds, the shepherds, the carpenters, the hedgers and cobblers?”One who hedges, for example in betting.