warder
IPA: wˈɔrdɝ
noun
- A guard, especially in a prison.
- (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
- One who or that which wards or repels.
- A surname from Old English.
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Examples of "warder" in Sentences
- "The warder is a normal person required to perform tasks under abnormal circumstances."
- I was really worried, thinking that I would have to call a warder and explain what had happened.
- The warder was the one first suspected, on the ground that you must have had assistance from without.
- "There is a room reserved for special circumstances," and, calling a warder, he gave the necessary instructions.
- He, however, is most generally known as warder of the rainbow, and god of heaven, and of the fruitful rains and dews which bring refreshment to the earth.
- There was no possibility of going round it, yet the drawbridges were already raised and the gates locked, so he boldly called the warder and showed his passport.
- Hogarth took off his boots under his blanket, and from them took out the vials; then, sitting up, commenced to call the warder, at the same time wetting the torn piece of shirt with some of the fluid.
- His warder was a dumb dog, a squint-eyed Cerberus with what Count Victor for once condemned as a tribal gibberish for his language, so that he was incapable of understanding what was said to him even if he had been willing to converse.
- Then, after asking how long the visitor wished to remain with the prisoners -- for Tichborne and Babington were quartered together -- he called a warder and committed Mr. Talbot to his guidance, to remain for two hours locked up in the cell.
- Venetian glasses were filled from flasks and jugs; I heard the guests praising the wines of Furstenberg and Bacharach, of Malvoisie and Cyprus, and I marked the effects of the noble and potent grape-juice, nay, now and then I played the part of "warder" to Uncle Christian; yet meseemed that it was only by another's will or ancient habit that I raised a warning finger.
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