warde

warde (plural wardes)

1. Obsolete spelling of ward

• (Pular) wardugol

warde

1. (Pulaar) to kill

• M. Niang (1997), Pulaar–English English–Pulaar Standard Dictionary, New York: Hippocrene Books

From Old English weard.

warde (plural wardes)

1. watchman, guard, keeper, warden, guardian
   • 1377, William Langland, edited by Aubrey Vincent Carlyle Schmidt, The Vision of Piers Plowman: A critical edition of the B-text based on Trinity College Cambridge MS B.15.17 (The Everyman Library), second edition, London · Vermont: J. M. Dent · Charles E. Tuttle, published 1995, →ISBN, passus xviii, page 320, lines 322–323:

     And with that breeth helle brak, with Belialles barres —
     For any wye or warde, wide open the yates.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1471, William Caxton, edited by Heinrich Oskar Sommer, Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, page 213:

     Thou hast slayn the wardes of the serpentes and the portyers of the lions that kepte this contre Inhabitable.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• English: ward

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “† Ward, sb.¹”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume X, Part 2 (V–Z), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 84, column 3.