ˈwarderer Obs. exc. Hist.
Also ward(e)rere.
[Identical with warder n.2; if the longer form be the original, it may have been a jocular use of warderere int.]
A warder or truncheon.
| a 1400–50 Wars Alex. 838 Þan Alexander at þis knyȝt angirs vnfaire, Wynnes him vp a wardrere [v.r. wardrerd] he walt in his handis, So hard him hittis on þe hede, his hernes out weltid. c 1420 Prose Life Alex. (1913) 110 Alexander smate Iobas on þe heued wit a warderere for na trespasse. 14.. Lat.-Eng. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 567/14 Bacillus, a warderere. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 656 Þe Kyng..caste downe a warderer whiche he then helde in his hande. 1523 Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclii. 229 Iohan Lyon helde in his hande a whyte warderere. 1843 Lytton Last Bar. iv. vii, By the laws, the combat may go on at thine asking—I retract my warderer. |