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Vinony

warder

noun

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Wiktionary

name

Etymology: Habitational surname, from the village of Wardour, Wiltshire, named with Old English weard (“guard”) + ōra (“bank, slope”).

  1. A surname from Old English.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English warder, wardere, also as Middle English warderer, warderere, probably a derivative of Etymology 1 above.

  1. 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, When, lo! the king chang’d suddenly his Mind, Casts down his Warder to arrest them there;”

    “Stay, the king hath thrown his warder down.”