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† ˈwardhouse Obs.
Also 7 Sc. waird-.
[f. ward n.2 + house n.]
1. (the) Wardhouse: used to render Norw. Vardøhuus, the name of a fortress situated on the island of Vardö, off the NE. coast of Norway.
1555in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 295 Articles..determined for the Commission of the Merchants of this company resiant in Russia, and at the Wardhouse, for the second voiage. 1557A. Jenkinson ibid. 334 Being at this North Cape the 2. day of July, we had [etc.]... The 3. day we came to Wardhouse. 1615I. R. Trades Increase 4 Whereas the Hollander..betweene the Warde-house and the Eastward, at Tippenie, Kilden, Olena,..and at Saint Nicholas in Russia, had aboue thirty fiue sailes of their shippes the last yeare.
2. A guard-house for prisoners. Sc.
1590Reg. Privy Council Scot. IV. 538 Ane sufficient wardhous for prisonaris. 1611Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 127 The lettres..concerning prissones and wairdhoussis. 1618Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1848) II. 357 Thomas Watsoune, maister measone to the bigging of the wardhous.
3. ? A post or station of a military guard.
1633Sir J. Burroughs Sov. Brit. Seas (1651) 83 The King of Denmarke at his Wardhouse in the Sound, hath for a Licence a Doller. |