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   Warder (?), n.
   1. One who wards or keeps; a keeper; a guard.  “The warders of the gate.”  Dryden.
   
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   2. A truncheon or staff carried by a king or a commander in chief, and used in signaling his will.
   
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   When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind,
   
   Casts down his warder to arrest them there. Daniel.
   
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   Wafting his warder thrice about his head,
   
   He cast it up with his auspicious hand,
   
   Which was the signal, through the English spread,
   
   This they should charge. Drayton.
   
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