Crossword clues for warder
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Warder \Ward"er\, n.
One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard. ``The warders of the gate.''
--Dryden.-
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.
--Daniel.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.
--Drayton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "guardian of an entrance," from Anglo-French wardere, wardour "guardian, keeper, custodian" (Old French gardeor), agent noun from Old North French warder "to guard, keep, maintain, uphold" (Old French garder), from Frankish *wardon, from Proto-Germanic *wardon "to guard" (see ward (v.)).
Wiktionary
n. 1 A guard, especially in a prison. 2 (context archaic English) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
WordNet
n. the chief official in charge of a prison [syn: warden]
Wikipedia
Warder may refer to:
- Prison officer
Usage examples of "warder".
Satisfied with the contents of the parcel and a second coin, the chief warder turned Alec over to another guard, who led him into the depths of the chilly edifice.
The walls seemed to press in around Alec as he followed the warder up flight after drafty flight of stone stairs.
As luck would have it, the warder was the same one whom Alec had met on his first visit to the Tower.
The chief warder, a swarthy man with immense moustaches, came out into the courtyard, sampled the air, approved, and strolled over to a stone seat under the baobab tree.
The gaggle of Warders out front near Gareth Bryne were evidence the meeting still went on.
If Gareth Bryne was leading their army, it was no mob of farmers and street sweepings with a few Warders for stiffening.
Being proxy meant you could speak for the Ennead, except that there were two kinds of proxies, reckoners and warders, and his parents were warders, which meant they stayed here in the Holding to work for the Ennead.
The Ennead had surreptitiously removed the freedom when they cast her warder.
The rift between warder and reckoner had begun under that Ennead, was one of its nasty byblows.
Her Warders, Furen and Teryl, were at her heels, each with a hand resting on his sword hilt.
To Ged, however, it seemed a city, and not knowing where to go he asked the first townsman of Thwil he met where he would find the Warder of the School on Roke.
I must make is that you, Gerund Gyres, as I must call you, have committed murder: on your own admission, you killed my chief warder.
Lan would not let the gleeman play harp or fluteno need to rouse the countryside, the Warder saidbut Thom juggled and told stories.
The old warder, obeying the instructions of William Lorimer, beyond keeping the traitor waiting a quarter of an hour, by which delay the darkness desired by William Lorimer drew so much the nearer, having answered the summons, let down the bridge with unaccustomed alacrity of motion.
And the first thing they noted was the dam which William Lorimer and his men had constructed, and which the old warder had broken before he himself wandered forth from the castle, thus letting the water which had filled the rear part of the moat escape.