laidner

• ladner

From Middle Scots ladinar, from Middle English lardener lardiner, from Anglo-Norman lardiner, apparently an alteration of larder (“larder”), Old French lardier after gardiner (“gardener”), from Medieval Latin lardārium, from laridum (“lard”).

laidner (plural laidners)

1. (obsolete) a larder (both a room and a food supply)

• “laidner, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.