warder
see also: Warder
Noun
Warder
Proper noun
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see also: Warder
Noun
warder (plural warders)
- A guard, especially in a prison.
- 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,
- Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.
- But hath thy portion wrought so happily?
- Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,
- I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.
- 1808 February 21, Walter Scott, “Canto First. The Castle.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: Printed by J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, OCLC 270129616 ↗, stanza II, page 24 ↗:
- Above the gloomy portal arch, / Timing his footsteps to a march, / The warder kept his guard, / Low humming, as he paced along, / Some ancient Border gathering song.
- 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368th Night, p. 26,
- So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.
- 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,
- Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.
- 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,
- (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,
- When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,
- Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;
- c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,
- Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, London: Tho. Lownds, Chapter 3, p. 91,
- If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.
- 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,
- German: Wärter; Gefängniswärter; Wächter
- Italian: carceriere, secondino, guardiano, custode, sorvegliante
- Portuguese: guarda
Warder
Proper noun
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