different between warder vs worder

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)d?(?)

Noun

warder (plural warders)

1. A guard, especially in a prison.
   • 1593, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, Act IV, Scene 1,^[1]

     Kent. Mortimer, ’tis I.

     But hath thy portion wrought so happily?

     Younger Mortimer. It hath, my lord: the warders all asleep,

     I thank them, gave me leave to pass in peace.

   • 1885, Richard Francis Burton (translator), The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 5, 368^th Night, p. 26,^[2]

     So the guards carried him to the jail, thinking to lay him by the heels there for the night; but, when the warders saw his beauty and loveliness, they could not find it in their hearts to imprison him: they made him sit with them without the walls; and, when food came to them, he ate with them what sufficed him.

   • 1958, Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, London: Heinemann, Chapter 24,

     Nobody else spoke, but they noticed the long stripes on Okonkwo’s back where the warder’s whip had cut into his flesh.

2. (archaic) A truncheon or staff carried by a king or commander, used to signal commands.
   • 1595, Samuel Daniel, Civil Wars, in The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Volume II, London: R. Gosling, 1718, Book I, stanza 62, p. 25,^[3]

     When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind,

     Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;

   • c. 1595, William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act I, Scene 3,^[4]

     Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.

   • 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, London: Tho. Lownds, Chapter 3, p. 91,^[5]

     If thou dost not comply with these just demands, he defies thee to single combat to the last extremity. And so saying, the Herald cast down his warder.

Translations

Anagrams

• drawer, redraw, reward, warred

Old French

Verb

warder

1. (Old Northern French, Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of guarder

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-d, *-ds, *-dt are modified to t, z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

Picard

Etymology

From Old French warder.

Verb

warder

1. to keep

Conjugation

English

Etymology

word +? -er

Noun

worder (plural worders)

1. One who words something a certain way; a turner of phrases.
   • 1654, Richard Whitlock, Zootomia; Or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English

     In summe, the active Christian is the onely Seraphicall Doctor, the just Dealer, the best Casuist, the good Example, Master of the Sentences, each good Action speaking more effectually, Imitation, or Conviction to Spectators, than any (though the subtlest worder) could ever arrive to.

Anagrams

• reword