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guider|ˈgaɪdə(r)|
Forms: 5–6 gyder, (5 gydoure, gidour), 6 gider, guyder, (gidar, Sc. gydar(e, gydear, gydder, 7 guidor), 6– guider.
[f. guide v. + -er1. Cf. OF. guideur guide.]
1. One who guides, in various senses of the vb. Formerly often used as equivalent to guide n.; now rare, to express mere agency apart from official function.
a. One who leads, or points out the way to (others); one who directs the course of (a vehicle, ship, etc.); † one who wields (a weapon).
c1475Partenay 4105 After in laughter saide to hys Gidour [etc.]. a1533Ld. Berners Huon clvi. 597 Then Huon..entered into the lytel shyppe and saluted the gyder therof. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. 3011 Send..Gydaris rycht gude, that culd thame weill convoy Fra all perrell. c1540Order in Battayll C, When he wyll battayle, lette it be secretlye done, that the guyders knowe it not. 1548Udall, etc. Par. Erasm. John ix. 39–41 They professe themselues teachers of the people, yt is, gyders of the blynde. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 267 b, Some launces, according to the mettall they mett, and skill of the guider, did staine themselues in bloud. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. vii. 7 Our Guider come, to th' Roman Campe conduct vs. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. v. (1623) 489 The Disherited were the Guiders of an other [Squadron]. a1718Parnell Deborah 84 Nine hundred chariots roll along, Expert their guiders, and their horses strong. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xvii, A Damsel guider of its way, A little skiff shot from the bay.
†b. spec. A man stationed on shore to signal to fishermen the direction taken by a shoal of herrings or pilchards; a balker or conder. Obs.
1603Act 1 Jas. I, c. 23 Diuers persons within the said counties [Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall] called..Directors or Guidors..haue vsed to watch..vpon the high Hilles and Grounds neere adioyning the Sea-Coasts for the giving Notice to the Fishermen.
c. One who directs the conduct or actions of (a person), or the affairs of (a state, household, etc.).
c1400Sowdone Bab. 163 Seinte Poule be oure gydoure. 1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 464 The gyders and leders of the noble Reame of Englond. 15..Sir Tryam. 1530 in Utterson E. Pop. Poet. (1817) I. 69 My knyght Syr Roger he dyde slo, That my gyder sholde haue bene. 1513Douglas æneis v. x. 3 Eneas..Epitides to hym hes callit sone, Maister and gydar of Ascanyus ȝong. 1542Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 185 The haill consell..ordanis Androw Luk to be gyder of the said artillierie. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. Deuot Prayers 34 Vouchesaif to send, o lord, thyne halie angel..to be the guyder of our lyf. c1610Women Saints 206 She chose greate Macrina for the keeper and guider of her widdowhood. 1619Visct. Doncaster in Eng. & Germ. (Camden) 196 The Baron de Rupa is at the present a chiefe guider among them. 1650Weldon Crt. Jas. I, 10 This Sir George Hewme being the only man that was the Guider of the King. 1685South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 358 [He] had great reason to acknowledge..Providence for the Guider of his Hand. 1808Scott Marm. iv. xxxii, God is the guider of the field, He breaks the champion's spear and shield. 1832Gen. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. XVI. 299 They were the only people to guide the guiders. 1883Congregationalist Sept. 771 The would-be guider of the world.
†d. fig. of things personified. Obs.
c1530Hickscorner in Manly Spec. Pre-Shaks. Drama I. 403 Let Trouth..Be your guyder. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. xxxvii. 34 Where reason and equalnesse be giders. 1639H. Glapthorne Poems 22 (Epithalamium), With that immaculate guider of her Youth, Rose-colour'd Modestie.
†e. In 16–17th c. the title of the head officer of certain charitable institutions. Obs.
1578–9Cal. MSS. Hatfield Ho. (1888) ii. 237 Protection for the Poor House of Waltham Cross, granted to George Philipp, guider, to gather in Middx. and Essex. 1603in F. Blomefield Hist. Norfolk (1745) II. 605–6 The office, place, and room, of the Guide and Guidership of S. Stephen's Hospital by Norwich, void by the death of John Bellmy, late Guider deceased.
2. Something which guides:
a. see quot. 1825 and guide n. 6 b;
b. a front or steering-wheel of a bicycle.
1825J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic 397 The threads are guided by passing through wire eyes..The guiders are in constant motion, and lay the threads regularly upon the reel. 1886Cyclist 6 Oct. 1324/1 We expect to see the small steering-wheel give way to the large one, and guiders of 24 in. to 30 in. lead the way.
c. dial. A sinew, tendon. (Cf. guide n. 10.)
1824Craven Gloss., Guiders, tendons. 1886S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., ‘He has strained his guiders’.
Hence ˈguidership, the office of guider; guidance.
1603[see guider 1 e]. 1849Alb. Smith Pottleton Leg. 177 The old coach..was confided once more to the guidership of old Will Turret. |