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
- Old warder of these buried bones,
- They were foiled by an alert warder.
- Mr McGovern was a warder for over thirty years.
- In 1918 he murdered a warder and escaped from prison.
- He insisted that he did not intend to kill the warder.
- In 1918, he murdered a warder and escaped from prison.
- The warders and convicts alike are brutalised by the system.
- He was educated to elementary level and worked as a prison warder.
- The relationship between gang members and the warders is an uneasy one.
- He is dragged into an office by the warder, presumably for medical attention.
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