dial. [cf. MDu. elder of same meaning; perh. repr. OTeut. *aliþro(m, f. *alan to nourish. (Not etymologically connected with UDDER.)] The udder of a cow or mare.
1674. Ray, N. C. Wds., 17. The Elder:s the Udder.
1679. Plot, Staffordsh. (1686), 262. Which was a yard and an inch high at 2 days old, and had milk in its elder.
1797. J. Downing, Disord. Horned Cattle, 87. The beast should be milked quite clean out of the elder.
1875. Lanc. Gloss., s.v. (E. D. S.), Hur [the cows] elder s a bit sore.
1880. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Gloss., s.v. (E. D. S.), The mar wuz glad to see the cowt for er elder wuz as ard as a stwun.