Word Meanings - BRIDGE-WARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. Sir W. Scott. 2. The principal ward of a key. Knight.

Related words: (words related to BRIDGE-WARD)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• PRINCIPALNESS
  The quality of being principal.
• GUARDIAN
  One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person or property of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a person incapable of managing his own affairs. Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians by nature. -- viz.,
• GUARDIANSHIP
  The office, duty, or care, of a guardian; protection; care; watch.
• PRINCIPALITY
  preëminence, excellence: cf. F. principalité, principauté. See 1. Sovereignty; supreme power; hence, superiority; predominance; high, or the highest, station. Sir P. Sidney. Your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.
• GUARDIANESS
  A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.
• GUARDIANLESS
  Without a guardian. Marston.
• GUARDER
  One who guards.
• GUARDANT
  See GARDANT (more info) 1. Acting as guardian. Shak.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• GUARDS
  A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
• GUARDHOUSE
  A building which is occupied by the guard, and in which soldiers are confined for misconduct; hence, a lock-up.
• KNIGHT BACHELOR
  A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
• BRIDGELESS
  Having no bridge; not bridged.
• BRIDGE
  The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument. (more info) akin to Fries. bregge, D. brug, OHG. bruccu, G. brücke, Icel. bryggja
• GUARDED
  Cautious; wary; circumspect; as, he was guarded in his expressions; framed or uttered with caution; as, his expressions were guarded. -- Guard"edly, adv. -- Guard"ed*ness, n.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• KEEPER
  1. One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. 2. One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. 3. One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• CUBBRIDGE-HEAD
  A bulkhead on the forecastle and half deck of a ship.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• AUCTION BRIDGE
  A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score
• COUNTERGUARD
  A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
• INNKEEPER
  An innholder.
• FOOTBRIDGE
  A narrow bridge for foot passengers only.
• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• COGUARDIAN
  A joint guardian.