(n.) One who makes or mends hedges; also, one who hedges, as, in betting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Following the first serum survey for swine vesicular disease [SVD] in Great Britain in 1974 (Watson and Hedger 1974), three further surveys have been carried out.
(2) There was optimistic talk in some circles that Cameron would prove to be a hedger.
(3) In 1911, the Tory party had split on Lords reform between the hedgers and ditchers.