单词 | warder |
释义 | wardern.1 I. One who wards or guards. 1. a. A soldier or other person set to guard an entrance; also, a watchman on a tower. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard warda680 wakemanc1175 wardena1250 watchc1380 watchmana1400 outwatch1488 warderc1540 sentinel1579 perdu1639 sentry1650 lookout1662 security man1662 guardman1756 excubitor1775 cockatoo1827 guardsmana1854 dog1870 the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > one who watches or keeps guard > warder of Tower of London Extraordinary Yeoman1485 waiter1551 warder1679–88 beefeater1864 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xi. 4690 Comyn to the castell,..the Grekes Ingird, gripped the warders, And all the fonnet folke fell to the dethe. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xc So were the warders [L. stationes] remoued from the gates the same daye. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. v. sig. Ff.vv/2 When the temple was builded, there were porters and warders of the temple appointed amonge the Leuites. 1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence x. 327 Wee call him that waighteth at the towre, one of the ward or a warder. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 72 Though Castles topple on their Warders heads. View more context for this quotation 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) 93 Wages due to their respective husbands as late wardours in the Tower of London. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 248 The Warders of the Gate but scarce maintain Th'unequal Combat. 1802 A. Radcliffe Gaston de Blondeville in Posthumous Wks. (1826) III. 4 Amongst these, were the wardours of a postern, near the north walls. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain i. xiii. 34 Upon the watch-tower's airy round No warder stood his horn to sound. 1831 W. Wordsworth Yarrow Revisited 6 Once more, by Newark's Castle-gate Long left without a warder, I stood. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House xxxii. 311 The gates [of Lincoln's Inn] are shut; and the night-porter, a solemn warder with a mighty power of sleep, keeps guard in his lodge. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. vii. 65 Memorie, the Warder of the Braine, Shall be a Fume, and the Receit of Reason A Lymbeck onely. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 301 There mounted guard on the other side of the mirror two stout warders of Scottish lineage; a jug,..and a quegh or bicker. 1849 E. Bulwer-Lytton King Arthur vi. vi Hill after hill the land's grey warders rose. 1880 W. Watson Prince's Quest iii A fair~built seaport, warder of the land And watcher of the wave. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > public officials > [noun] > specific officials in Ireland young man1577 warder1617 stamp-master1712 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 97 Warders in Leinster per annum one thousand three hundred ten li nineteene s. two pence. 3. An official in charge of prisoners in a jail. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] > jailer jailerc1290 prisonera1325 officer?1387 claviculer1447 javeler?c1450 key turner1606 baston1607 twistkey1617 prison keeper1623 detainer1647 prison officer1649 turnkey1655 imprisoner1656 phylacist1656 cipier1671 wardsman1683 goodman1698 prison guard1722 screw1812 dungeoner1817 dubsman1839 cell-keeper1841 prison warder1854 warder1855 dubs1882 twirl1891 hack1914 correction officer1940 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 22 The prisoner's confinement was not strict... He was permitted to go into the country under the care of a warder. 1863 P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 152 The convicts and warders in Milbank Prison. 1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xvii. 241 The Chief Warder..had been promoted to his office from Dartmoor. 4. Scottish. A person in ward, a prisoner. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prisoner > [noun] prisona1225 prisonerc1384 enpresonéc1425 bird1580 warder1584 canary bird1593 penitentiala1633 convict1786 chum1819 lag1819 lagger1819 new chum1819 nut-brown1835 collegian1837 canary1840 Sydney duck1873 forty1879 zebra1882 con1893 yardbird1956 zek1968 1584 Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 352/1 The gard and keping of prissoneris and wardours. 1629 Reg. Privy Council Scott. 2nd Ser. III. 12 Who under pretext and cullour of freindship unto the wairdours sould crave accesse unto them... Who..sould stryke the jaylour and so give way to the wairdours and escape. Compounds attributive and in other combinations (in senses of Branch I.). ΚΠ 1831 G. P. R. James Philip Augustus xix De Coucy hastened to demand of the squire wherefore he had sounded the great warder horn, which hung in the watch-tower. 1864 A. C. Swinburne Atalanta 1213 Where the dawn Cheers first these warder gods that face the sun. 1904 A. Griffiths Fifty Years Public Service xii. 163 The warder officers arraigned before him all those whom they desired to report for offences. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2022). wardern.2 In early use: A staff or wand. Later, the baton or truncheon carried as a symbol of office, command, or authority; esp. as used to give the signal for the commencement or cessation of hostilities in a battle or tournament. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod yardc1275 tipped stickc1386 bastona1400 mace?a1419 wandc1430 warderc1440 baculc1449 roda1450 verge1493 staff1535 tipstaff1541 verger1547 truncheon1573 vare1578 baton?1590 trunch1590 fasces1598 macer wanda1600 virge1610 batoona1652 stick1677 shaku1875 poker1905 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 516/2 Warder, staffe..bacillus..perticulus. 1500 Maldon (Essex) Court Rolls (Bundle 59, No. 3b) Super quo dictus constabularius eum percussit cum predicto warder. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. xlixv Before whom there went..syr Thomas of Herpingham..with a warder in his hand, and when he cast vp his warder al the army shouted. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 396 The king cast downe his warder, and commaunded them to stay. 1643 R. Baker Chron. Kings of Eng. i. 83 [At the coronation] William de Patricke Earl of Salisbury..bare the Warder or Rodde, having on the toppe thereof a Dove. 1765 H. Walpole Castle of Otranto iii So saying, the herald cast down his warder. 1813 W. Scott Bridal of Triermain ii. xx. 86 When the strife grows warm,..thy king commands, Thou drop the warder from thy hands. 1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour II. 32 At this King Edward threw down his wardour, the marshal cried ‘Ho!’ and the combat ceased. 1898 S. J. Weyman Shrewsbury (1917) xxxii. 253 The portrait of a man in armour, with a warder in his mailed hand, frowned down on me. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † wardern.3 Obsolete. rare. A beacon or sea-mark. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > buoys, marks, or lighthouses > [noun] > object on land or sea as guide > beacon beacon1397 warder1584 1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers f. 50v When you are a little within, there [i.e. on the Norway coast] stands a little Warder which is a beacon or marke before the entrie. 1584 R. Norman tr. C. Antoniszoon Safegard of Sailers 53 b Then as far from that lies another little rocke in sight aboue water, and there stands a warder or marke vpon it. 1588 A. Ashley tr. L. J. Wagenaer Mariners Mirrour ii. f. vii On the North side stande two warders [Du. twee warderen] vpon a high hill. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). wardern.4 rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencer swordmana1387 buckler-player1448 sword-player1538 escrimer1572 fencer1581 offender1599 warder1599 scrimer1604 swordsmana1680 parrier1809 1599 G. Silver Paradoxes Def. in Wks. (1898) 7 It is a great question, and especially amongst the Rapier-men, who hath the vantage of the thruster, or of the warder. 1599 G. Silver Paradoxes Def. in Wks. (1898) 13 [He] hath the aduantage, whether he be striker, thruster or warder. 2. One who wards off (something). Also warder-off. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > escape > [noun] > warding off harm > one who wards off (something) warder1871 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxviii. 63 Mallius e'en such help brought me, a warder of harm. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets ii. 41 Empedocles..received in consequence the title of κωλυσανέμας, or warder-off of winds. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). warderv. transitive. To provide with a warder or sentinel. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard over [verb (transitive)] > furnish with a guard or warder sentinel1656 warder1849 1849 J. Ruskin On Old Road (1905) I. 218 Samuel Prout Its countless churches wardered by saintly groups of solemn statuary. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vi. 83 Heavenly calm Warders the room. 1901 J. H. McCarthy If I were King vi The Lord of Montcorbier was, indeed, wardered..by very different stars from the fellow of the Fircone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1c1540n.2c1440n.31584n.41599v.1849 |
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