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noun

Warder n.

One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. "The warders of the gate."

A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will. "When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there." "Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English spread, This they should charge."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Warder" Quotes from Famous Books

... pass Brixton Prison everyday who have no conception of its whereabouts. The main entrance is tucked away a hundred yards or so down an unobtrusive turning off Brixton Hill. Within a little gate-house inside the barred gates a principal warder ...

— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest

... the famous Son[68] of Hlodyn To fight with the serpent. Though about to die, He fears not the contest; All men Abandon their homesteads When the warder of Midgard In wrath slays ...

— The Younger Edda - Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda • Snorre

... are dreary, And we're out of heart with life, Of its crowding cares aweary, And sick of its restless strife, We take a lesson in patience From the attic corner dim, Where the chest still holds its treasures, A warder faithful ...

— McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... the first time in his life he embraced his son, took the boy's head between his hands, and kissed him on the forehead. Franz Vogt felt the trembling of the old man's lips, and choked back his own tears. As the warder was taking him back down the long passage he looked round once more. His father was just going out of the door, and a ray of sunlight fell on the venerable white head. Then the folding-doors closed, and shut in the ...

— 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? • Franz Beyerlein

... O'ercame the ashen hue of age: Fierce he broke forth: "And darest thou, then, To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? And hopest thou hence unscathed to go?— 55 No, by Saint Bride of Bothwell, no!— Up drawbridge, grooms!—what, Warder, ho! Let the ...

— The Ontario High School Reader • A.E. Marty

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