bridge-ward
English
Noun
bridge-ward (plural bridge-wards)
- (obsolete) A warden or guard for a bridge.
- 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], OCLC 892089409:
- It is needless to say, that the bridge-ward had usually the better in these questions, since he could at pleasure detain the traveller on the opposite side [of the bridge]
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- (obsolete) The principal ward of a key.
References
- bridge-ward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
Anagrams
- draw bridge, draw-bridge, drawbridge