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▪ I. warding, vbl. n.1|ˈwɔːdɪŋ|
[f. ward v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of guarding (a place) or furnishing it with a guard.
c1425tr. Vegetius' De Re Milit. (MS. Digby 233) lf. 222 b/2 More necligent of here wardynge of here walles. 1595Locrine iii. ii. 54 What strange accidents Makes you to leaue the warding of the campe.
b. The action or duty of keeping guard. Chiefly in watching and warding: see watching vbl. n.
1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. xxxi, And while his weary kingdome safely sleeps, All restlesse night he watch and warding keeps. 1724in Temple & Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 202, 1 day's work with his oxen..and 1 day's warding for a soldier which did work at the mount.
†2. concr.
a. A defensive force or work.
b. The body of watchmen. Obs.
a.13..K. Alis. 7114 (Laud MS.), Þer he dude his meignee alle Abouten þe diches maken walle And holde hem wiþinne wiþ grete wardynges. 1382Wyclif Ezek. iv. 2 And thou shalt ordeyne aȝens it a bisegynge; and thou shalt bilde waardingis [1388 strengthis; Vulg. munitiones].
b.1549Wriothesley Chron. (Camden) II. 25 And this day the wardinge of the gates beganne their watch in harnis.
3. Imprisonment. Sc.
1497Acta Dom. Conc. II. 48 Andro..was chargit to compere under the pane of warding of his person. 1524Diurn. Occurr. (Bannatyne Club) 9 All the kirkis of thar dyocies wer interdyted induring their [sc. the two bishops'] wairding. 1563–4Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 259 The said Alexander is be hir Hienes fred of his said warding. 1601P. Ogleby in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 33 What satisfaction can my warding be to England. 1689in Acts Parlt. Scot. (1875) XII. 75/2 Executione Be poynding and wardeing against the deficients in payment of the town revenue. 1825Scott Talism. xvi, He was put under warding for a time. 1826G. J. Bell Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5) II. 538 The warrant for imprisonment for debt in Scotland, analogous to that under the English statute-merchant, is called an Act of Warding. 1912E. Russell Maitland of Lethington vii. 237 By wholesale warding of all who were thought dangerous..she..kept them from joining Moray.
4. Guardianship, keeping.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xi. 1–4 That thei maie vnder the tuicion and wardyng of their heauenly father, bee safely defended against Satans ingiens. 1893Stevenson Catriona xv, They began to crack about the Bass and which o' them twa was to get the warding o't.
5. The fashioning of the wards of keys, in warding file (see quots.).
1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 824 Sometimes, as in the warding files for locksmiths, the two broad surfaces are left uncut or safe. 1881Young Every Man his own Mechanic §1495. 676 If a key will not exactly fit a little filing of the nicks with a thin flat file called a ‘warding file’ may have the desired effect.
6. Comb.: † warding-place, (a) a place where guard is kept; (b) Sc., a place of confinement for prisoners.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lv. 15 Like as one warding-place maketh souldyers felowelike in a camp. 1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 232 Thay intendit to have biggit..a warding place and a place of pressoun for keping of malefactouris. 1752J. Louthian Form of Process 78 All Persons in whose Custody the said C.D. is detained, furthwith to set him at Liberty, out of their Tolbooths, and others their warding Places.
▪ II. † ˈwarding, vbl. n.2
[Aphetic form of awarding.]
Judicial award.
1485Rolls of Parlt. VI. 274/2 The said Actes of Atteindre and Forfeiture, Disableing, Inditements, Warding of Exegent, [etc.].
▪ III. ˈwarding, ppl. a.|ˈwɔːdɪŋ|
[f. ward v.1 + -ing2.]
That wards or guards; protecting.
1697Dryden æneis vii. 1013 Short crooked Swords in closer Fight they wear, And on their warding Arm light Bucklers bear. 1916A. G. Mitchell War Songs 13 Thy guiding, warding Arm we own. |