rare. [f. WARD v.1 + -ER1.] † a. Fencing. One who parries. b. One who wards off (something). Also warder-off.
1599. G. Silver, Paradoxes of Def., Wks. (1898), 7. It is a great question, and especially amongst the Rapier-men, who hath the vantage of the thruster, or of the warder. Ibid., 13. [He] hath the aduantage, whether he be striker, thruster or warder.
1871. R. Ellis, Catullus, lxviii. 63. Mallius e’en such help brought me, a warder of harn.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, ii. 41. He [Empedocles] received in consequence the title of κωλυσανέμας, or warder-off of winds.
