Definition of "warder" in English

noun

1. A guard, especially in a prison.

2. One who or that which wards or repels.

noun

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