1) Exclusively Anglo word 2) Exclusively Saxon word 3) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 4) Word of purely Anglo origin 1) Veteran 
• (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
Gam'mer (găm'mẽr) noun [ Possibly contr. from godmother ; but probably from grammer for grandmother . Confer Gaffer .] An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer , an old man.