▪ I. warded, a.1
(ˈwɔːdɪd)
[f. ward n.2 + -ed2.]
Of a key, lock: Constructed with wards. (Usually with defining word prefixed.)
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 94 b, This Crosse ought to be figured as a double warded key. 1591 Greene Conny Catch. ii. 25 He..can picke a lock if it be not too crosse warded. 1628 Feltham Resolves ii. xxxiii. 105 Attendants are like to..lockes... If they be such as a stranger may picke..it is very fit to change them instantly. But if they be well warded, they are then good guards of our fame. 1850 Chubb Locks & Keys 8 There was also another lock constructed on the warded principle, but with the addition of a single tumbler. 1853 Hobbs & Tomlinson Locks v. 58 Complex warded locks. |
▪ II. ˈwarded, a.2 Obs. exc. dial.
[f. ward n.4 + -ed2.]
? Affected with callosity.
| 1658 W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. ii. verse 16 xix. 650 Acts of mercy and forgivenesse are with so much difficulty drawn..from those that are Saints, even like milk out of a warded breast. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia s.v. Ward v., The hands of hard working people are said to be warded. |
▪ III. ˈwarded, ppl. a.1
(ˈwɔːdɪd)
[f. ward v.1 + -ed1.]
† 1. Detained ‘in ward’, imprisoned. Sc. Obs.
| c 1610 J. Forbes Certain Rec. (Wodrow Soc.) ii. viii. 455 The guard came..with a warrand to receive the warded ministers, and convoy them to the Councell. |
2. Furnished with a protective padding; guarded.
| 1853 Dickens Bleak Ho. i, Running their goat-hair and horse-hair warded heads against walls of words. |
▪ IV. warded, ppl. a.2
(ˈwɔːdɪd)
[f. ward v.2, aphetic form of ‘award’ + -ed1.]
(See quot.)
| 1894 Northumbld. Gloss., 768 Warded, assigned, set out, awarded by commissioners appointed to carry out the division of common lands. Warded roads, the roads thus set out. |