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warder
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warder1 (feminine), wardress
Chiefly Brit an officer in charge of prisoners in a jail

warder2
(formerly) a staff or truncheon carried by a ruler as an emblem of authority and used to signal his wishes or intentions


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One doctor used to put his finger through the extreme end of the left side of my jaw and cut me while the wardress put her finger through the right side of my jaw.
And, were his prayer not answered, he could rely on a kind wardress.
Curiously, when she appeared in court - apparently just one of 75 arrests during a WSPU attempt to get Lancashire and Yorkshire clogs resounding on the floor of the House of Commons - the magistrate was most distressed to be told she was 17 (she was in fact only 16) and insisted on sending her home, much against her wishes, with money from the Poor Box and accompanied by an elderly wardress as chaperone
 
 
 
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