[f. WOUND v. + -ED.] One who or that which wounds.
1483. Cath. Angl., 424/1. A Wounder, plagarius.
1573–80. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 7. Your father was my founder, till death became his wounder.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XVI. x. (1886), 410. The blood of him that is wounded, reboundeth and slippeth into the wounder.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., IX. (1626), 179. Like a Bull, that beares A wounding iauelin; whom the wounder feares.
1818. Todd.
1877. Mrs. Oliphant, Makers Flor., i. 23. He was one of the feditori or wounders, i.e., one of the band of volunteers who … made the assault upon the enemy.
1901. ‘Linesman,’ Words by Eyewitness (1902), 57. Shells are unlovely killers and wounders: but for them there would be but little of the butcher’s-shop suggestion about a modern battlefield, with its clean-puncturing rifle-bullets.
